List of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller
Sovereign Military Order of Malta

List of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller

Section Title: Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Table Section Text: None

Nr	Title	Picture	Name	Time in office	Notes

72	Grand Master (partial recognition)	-	Paul I of Russia	1798–1801	Elected by the Priory of St. Petersburg in September 1798 (before the abdication of von Hompesch).

-	Nikolay Saltykov	1801–1803	De facto Lieutenant in Saint Petersburg

73	Grand Master Gran Maestro	-	Giovanni Battista Tommasi	1803–1805	Appointed by Pope Pius VII in 1803. Residence in Messina and Catania

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo	1805–1814	Headquarters in Catania. Loss of territories and Protestant branches.

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Andrea Di Giovanni y Centellés	1814–1821	Headquarters in Catania

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Antoine Busca	1821–1834	Headquarters in Ferrara. SMOM recognized at the Congress of Verona (1822).

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Carlo Candida	1834–1845	Headquarters moved to Palazzo Malta, Rome. Restoration of the grand priories of Lombardy-Venetia and of Sicily in 1839/41.

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Filippo di Colloredo-Mels	1845–1864

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Alessandro Borgia	1865–1871

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce	1871–1879

74	Prince and Grand Master Princeps et Magister Magnus	-	Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce	1879–1905	Restoration of the office of Grand Master after a 75-year interregnum, confirmed by Pope Leo XIII.

75	Prince and Grand Master Princeps et Magister Magnus	-	Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein	1905–1931

76	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	-	Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere	1931–1951

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Antonio Hercolani Fava Simonetti	1951–1955

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Ernesto Paternò Castello di Carcaci	1955–1962

77	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	-	Angelo de Mojana di Cologna	1962–1988

Lieutenant ad interim	-	Jean Charles Pallavicini	1988

78	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	-	Andrew Bertie	1988–2008	Partial revision of the constitution (1997, promulgated 1961).

Lieutenant ad interim	-	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2008

79	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	-	Matthew Festing	2008–2017	First Grand Master elected under the new constitution of 1997. Resigned in 2017 following a dispute with the Vatican.

Lieutenant ad interim	-	Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein	2017

Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	-	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2017–2018

80	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	-	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2018–present

Sentence(s)

Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto is the 80th and current Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

final_sentence: Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto is the 80th and current Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.