Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)

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The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (Latin: Ordo Militaris et Hospitalis Sancti Lazari Hierosolymitani) is a Christian order that was statuted in 1910 by a council of Catholics in Paris, France, initially under the protection of Patriarch Cyril VIII Geha of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. The Order was officially recognised by the Spanish state in 1940 (Boletin oficial del Estado num. 131 de fecha 10 de mayo de 1940, pp. 3177–3178). During the 1920s, it expanded its jurisdiction and enrolled members from other countries in Europe and in the Americas. It re-established the office of grand master in 1935, linking the office to members of the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon. It assumed an ecumenical dimension during the 1950s to expand its membership to individuals of other Trinitarian Christian denominations in British Commonwealth countries. Owing to an internal schism in 1969, the order became divided into two competing "obediences", known as the Malta...

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