Self-styled Orders which illegitimately claim to be an offspring of the genuine Order of St. John / Order of Malta

For an in-depth explanation and historical background information please visit Guy Stair Sainty's pages on Self-styled Orders and "false Orders"

The "False Orders Committee /
Ausschuß 'Falsche Orden' /
Comite sur les faux ordres"
of the Alliance Orders of St. John
( = Sovereign Military Order of Malta ·
Most Venerable Order of St. John ·
Johanniterorden Balley Brandenburg ·
Johanniterorden i Sverige ·
Johanniter Orde in Nederland )
[Secretariat:
Johanniterstraße 9,
53113 Bonn,
Germany,
phone +49 228 53011-13,
fax +49 228 234571]
has issued this list of the most important of the unrecognised "Orders" of St. John of Jerusalem:

1. Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta
   Royal Protector: King Michael of Romania
   Prince Grand Master: Capt. Joseph Frendo Cumbo, Ontario, Canada

2. Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Family Commanders and Hereditary Knights of St.John
   Prince Grand Master: Dr. John L. Grady, Tennessee, USA

3. Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, Knights of Rhodes, Hospitallers of Jerusalem
   Imperial Protector: Prince Aleksei Nicholaevich Romanoff
   Lt. Grand Master: Salvatore T. Messineo, Reading, USA

4. Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta. The International Order / The Hereditary OSJ
   Prince Grand Master: Baron Kenneth B. Benfield of Palmonova, Gzira / Malta

5. Ordre Souverain de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, Chevaliers de Malte, OSJ
   Baron Yves Galouzeau de Villepin, Paris / France

6. Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, under the Protection of the Royal House of Yugoslavia
   Patron: Prince Karl-Wladimir Karageorgevitch
   Lt. Grand Master: Prince Serge Troubetzkoy, Middlesex / England
   Grand Priories: UK, Ireland, Australia, Netherlands, USA, Malta
   Dependent Order: Russian Grand Priory of Malta
   Lt. Grand Master: Anthony Zammit, Valetta / Malta
   Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, Under the Constitution given by King Peter II of Yugoslavia; Patron: HRH Prince Karl Vladimir Karageorgevitch; Lt Grand Master: Anthoney Zammit, GCSJ; Grand Prior of Australia: Bailiff Robert Halliday, OAM, GCSJ

   • OSJ Grand Priory of Australia | OSJ Priory of Victoria | OSJ Geelong Commanderie

   • "osj: ORDINE DI SAN GIOVANNI DI GERUSALEMME GRAN PRIORATO RUSSO DI MALTA E D’EUROPA (The OSJ under Victor Xuereb Lieutenant Grand Master)"

   • "ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM Belgium Roman Catholic"

7. Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitallers (The Sacred Orthodox Order of St.John of Jerusalem)
   Grand Prior and Grand Chancellor: John Wilkinson de Batemberg, Houston / USA
   Administrative Headquarters at Zug / Switzerland

8. The Imperial Russian Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Ecumenical Foundation (Knights of Malta)
   Grand Master: Prince Robert Bassaraba von Brancovan Khimchiachvili, New York / USA

9. Grand Sovereign Dynastic Hospitaller Order of St.John, Knights of Malta
   Hereditary Prince Grand Master: Prince Henry III de Paleologue
   Lt. Grand Master: Prince George King de Santorini, Count de Florina Cannes / France

10. The Royal Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, Ecumenical. A Reigning Territorial Sovereignty.
    Grand Master: Prince John de Mariveles d'Anjou, Virginia Water / USA

11. The Australian Order of St.John of Jerusalem. Knights Hospitaller Limited. Incorporated in Victoria.
    Prior of Victoria: Edwin E. Bonello, Watsonia, Victoria, Australia

12. Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Ecumenical, Knights of Malta
    Prince Grand Master: Prince Jorge I (Jorge de Alvarado)
    Grand Chancery: La Coruna / Spain
    Grand Priory of America-Napa / USA;
    Grand Priory for the Netherlands and Great Britain, Rotterdam / Netherlands; Commanderies in Belgium and France

13. The Swiss Command of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Ecumenical Knights of Rhodes and Malta
    Grand Commander: Bruno Giulio Burzi, Lugano / Switzerland.
    [ We received this e-mail from "Swissor" <swissor@bluewin.ch>:
    Lugano 01.10.2001
    Falsche Orden 
    Punkt 13, the swiss command ecc... ENTSPRICHT NICHT DER EINTRAGUNG =
    SIE HABEN EINE FALSCHE INFORMATION ERHALTEN ?
    Sehr geehrte Herren
    Wir bitten um Kenntnisnahme dass: unser Verein OSJ offiziell in der Schweiz Eingetragen ist #: CH-514.6.012.557-6. Möchte auch Ihnen mitteilen dass der Vatikan kein Anrecht auf eine Exklusivität hat. Nicht alle Vereine müssen vom Vatikan anerkennt sein !!!! wichtig ist, dass ein Verein Offiziell Eingetragen ist.
    Es gibt zu viele Orden, in der Schweiz und Weltweit, wo keine Eintragung, Registrierung usw. haben, und sich nur stutzen, dass Sie vom Vatikan anerkennt sind. Die meisten „offiziellen und nicht offiziellen“ Orden haben nicht einmal eine Telefon-Eintragung. Mit freundlichen Grüssen Commenda Svizzera OSJ Bruno G. Burzi ]

14. Knights of Malta. Sovereign Order of Reformed Hospitallers of St.John of Jerusalem
    Grand Master: Prince Arnaldo Petrucci di Vacone e Siena
    Grand Chancery: New York / USA
    Agency: Knights of Malta OSJ Foundation, Rome / Italy

15. The Sovereign Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem of Denmark
    Storkansler: Mogens Tvermoes
    Chancery: Copenhagen / Denmark
    Priories in Norway and Sweden.
    Den Danske Malteser Orden
    Den Autonome Gejstlige Ridderlige Malteserorden i Dacia

16. Sovereign Order of St. John in the Americas
    Grand Master F. Flores-Banuet, San José / Costa Rica

17. Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, Independent and Ecumenical Priorate of the Holy Trinity of Villedieu
    Patron: Prince Pierre Phillippe de la Chastre
    Grand Master and Grand Prior: Marquis Carlo Stivala do Flavigny, Valetta / Malta
    Grand Priory of Australia, Priory of Quebec / Canada

18. Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of St.John of Jerusalem
    High Spiritual Protector: Patriarch Aleksey II of Moscow
    Grand Prior: Count Nicholas Bobrinskoy, Mt. Vernon / USA
    Dependent: The Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller. A Priory of the Sovereign Order of Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem
    Priory in Malta and Priory of the British Isles

The Federal Association of the Order of Malta has published this list of organisations, which have no affiliation with the Order of Malta and are not recognized by the Vatican:

1. Grand Sovereign Dynastic Hospitaller Order of St. John - New York City, New York, USA
2. Illustrious Order of the Knights of Malta - Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
3. Imperial Russian Order of St. John of Jerusalem - New York City, New York, USA
4. Knights Hospitaller OSJ - Knights of Malta - Bradenton, Florida, USA
5. Knights of Malta, Cable Car Chapter - San Francisco, California, USA
6. Knights of Malta, The Grand Chancellery - Great Neck, New York, USA
7. Knights of Malta, Sov. Order of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem - Bellevue, Washington, USA
8. Knights of St. John - several US cities
9. Order of St. John - San Francisco, California, USA
10. Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Ecumenical Knights of Malta - Bethesda, Maryland, USA
11. Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Priorate of the Holy Trinity - Villedieu, France
12. Sovereign Order of St. John - Benton, Tennessee, USA
13. Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem - Ontario, Canada

James J. Algrant, C.St.J published a very valuable webpage about False "Orders" of St. John unter the title: The Proliferation of Russian and other 'Orders' of St. John
He mentions:

• I. The Hospitaller Knights of St.John the Baptist (ca. 1875);
  Sovereign Order of St.John the Baptist (ca. 1975);
  Order of St.John the Baptist in America (ca.1975)
• II. The Grand Priory of America of the Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem (1908)
• III. Union of Descendants of Hereditary Commanders and Knights of the Russian Grand priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1928)
• IV.
  a) Sovereign Order of the Hospital of St.John of Jerusalem of Denmark(1934)
  b) The Ecclesiastical Knightly Order of Malta of St.John of Jerusalem, the Priory of St.Andrew (1939) later called The Autonomous Priory of Dacia of the Order of Malta(1983);
  c) The Grand priory of the Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem in Denmark(1946);
  Sovereign Imperial Russian Order of Knights of Malta (1948)
• V. Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, Priory of the Holy Saviour (1960)
• VI. Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta or Knights Hospitaller (OSJ) (1961-62)
• VII. Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller (1965)
• VIII. French Fraternity of the Order of St.John of Jerusalem (1965)
• IX. The Byzantine Protectorate of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St.John of Jerusalem (1986);
  Dynastic Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1986)
• X. Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta (1968-69)
• XI. Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, a.k.a. Ecumenical Knights of Malta (1970);
  The Imperial Russian Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Ecumenical Foundation (199?)
• XII. Grand Priory of Malta of the Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller (1970)
• XIII. Sovereign Order of Hospitallers of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta (1970-71)
• XIV. International Grand Priory of the Sovereign Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta (1971)
• XV. The Knights of St.John and Malta (ca 1972)
• XVI. The Priory of the Order of Malta of the Most Holy Trinity of Villeneuve(1945;
  The Sovereign Military Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta Headquarters (1975)
• XVII. The Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem (1977)
• XVIII. Sovereign Order of the Hospital of St.John of Jerusalem (1982)
• XIX. Priorate of the Holy Trinity of Villedieu of the Sovereign Military Order of St.John of Jerusalem (1989)
• XX. The Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, Priory of Famagusta (199?)
• Royal Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Aragón
• Royal Archconfraternity of the Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist of the Knights of Malta, ad honorem of Catanzaro (Barcelona chapter).
• Portuguese Order of St. John of Jerusalem
• Order of St.John of Jerusalem of Antioch (10)

Other False "Orders" of St. John / Malta

• Order of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem [OSJ Balije Wolvenberg vzw (Louvain) Inc.]

• Sovereign Principality of Saint John (a.k.a. the Knights of Malta), The Ecclesiastical Government of The Holy Episcopal Ecclesiarchate (The Sovereign Principality of Saint John - The Royal Grand Priory of Saint John - The Sovereign Royal Military Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem - The Knights Royal Of Saint John)

  • The Priory of St. John of the Sovereign Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the Knights of Malta

• THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA: The Scottish Branch of the Ancient High and Exalted Order of the Knights of Malta Through the Orange and Masonic Tradition

• Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Shickshinny 2, Pa., U.S.A. (Mirror page) also called "Sovereign Order of St John, Knights of Malta" mentioned in: THE TRIDENTINE RITE CONFERENCE AND ITS SCHISMATIC COUSINS | Saucers, Secrets and Shickshinny Knights

• Hospice of St. John of Lakewood, Colorado, U.S.A.

• THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The hereditary Order. International Headquarters in Malta

• The Knights of Malta, American Commandery, Platte City, MO, U.S.A. (Sir Glen F. Stinson O.S.J.)

• Union of the Descendants of the Hereditary Commanders and Knights of the Russian Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem

• Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (U.S.A.) Knights of Malta (S.O.S.J.) Member: Prof. Dr. Maurice Khoury Hanna Dib

• Order of St. John, International Knights of Malta.

• "The ancient crusader Order of the Knights of Malta (Order of St.John of Jerusalem - Cypriot Langue)" and "The United Grand Priories in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of the Ecumenical Chapters of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta - Spanish and Maltese Langues". Mentioned in: The Chivalric Emporium of West Virginia and other mail order ventures. This is the order that was headed by the late Alexis Brimeyer, sometimes known as "H.R.H. Prince Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Conde, Duke of Durazzo etc.,etc.", who appears in several papers on "orders" of St.John.

• The Traditional Catholic Homepage

• The Russian branch of the Order of the Knights of St. John: Medals of the Great War

• Malteser Orden as advertised by: Privacy Consulting Ltd., Registered Office: 200/208 Tottenham Court Road, Glen House, Unit B17, London W1P 9LA, United Kingdom, E-Mail: Privacyconsult@aol.com, Tel:+44-171-573-4503, Fax:+44-171-573-4504

• Ordo Sancti Joannis Hospitalis Hierosolymitani., Inc., info@knightshospitaller.org, Hereditary Grand Prior: His Highness, Alfred Prince von Habsburg-Hohenberg, Margrave von Burgau, Baron von Kupferberg, Landgrave zu Nellenburg, Burgrave von Tirol, AVonHabsburg@aol.com

• Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, (Priory of Saint Thomas Becket) [http://www.excaliber.net/chevlier/sovosjkm.htm => NOTICE Until further notice, this web-site is suspended for renovations.]

• What is the OSJ? [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5449/osj.htm => Dead link!]

• Regular Order of Saint John of Holy Land - of the Russian Tradition of the Christian Ecumenical Knights Hospitaller / Ordre Regulier de Saint Jean de Terre Sainte - de la Tradition Russe des Chevaliers Hospitaliers OEcuméniques Chrétiens

• The Order of St. John of Jerusalem | Priory Of St. Athanasius

Pseudo Orden und ihr Auftreten in Österreich 1996-2002

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