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)

Matthew Festing served as Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 2008 until his resignation following a dispute with the Vatican in 2017.

final_sentence: Matthew Festing served as Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 2008 until his resignation following a dispute with the Vatican in 2017.