Question: Who formed the Grand Loge de France?
Answer: Duke of Clermont

Question: Who was the successor to the Duke of Clermont?
Answer: Duke of Orléans

Question: When did English Freemasonry spread to France?
Answer: the 1720s

Question: When did Freemasonry spread to most of the Continental Europe?
Answer: the 18th century

Question: The Grand Loge de France formed under who?
Answer: the Grand Mastership of the Duke of Clermont

Question: Who was the successor to the Grand Mastership of The Duke of Clermont?
Answer: the Duke of Orléans

Question: When was the central body of the Grand Orient de France reconstituted?
Answer: 1773

Question: Why was the Centre de Liasion et d'information des Puissances maconniques signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg set up?
Answer: provides a forum for most of these Grand Lodges and Grand Orients worldwide

Question: When was CLIPSAS set up?
Answer: 1961

Question: What are two major sections of Freemasonry?
Answer: Anglo-American and Continental

Question: What is the Continental Strand consideres to be by most of Freemasonry?
Answer: Irregular

Question: What strand is considered to be irregular by the majority of Freemasons?
Answer: the Liberal (Continental) strand

Question: The CLIPSAS Organization was formed in what year?
Answer: 1961

Question: How many Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are listed in the CLIPSAS list?
Answer: 70

Question: Does the United Grand Lodge of England communicate with any of the 70 lodges on the CLIPSAS list?
Answer: does not communicate

Question: Whao has always opposed Freemasonry?
Answer: the Roman Catholic Church

Question: Why does the Catholic Church oppose the Freemasons so strongly?
Answer: teaches a naturalistic deistic religion

Question: Who issued the first Papal prounouncement against Freemasonry?
Answer: Pope Clement XII

Question: When was the first Papal prounouncement against Freemasonry made?
Answer: 28 April 1738

Question: What was the most recent Papal prounouncement agasnst Freemasonry?
Answer: Pope Leo XIII's Ab apostolici, 15 October 1890

Question: Who has the longest history of objection to Freemasonry?
Answer: the Roman Catholic Church

Question: What law banned books favoring Freemasonry?
Answer: The 1917 Code of Canon Law

Question: The Roman Catholic Church objection to Freemasons are based on what?
Answer: Masonry teaches a naturalistic deistic religion

Question: What pope first issued Papal pronouncements against Freemasons?
Answer: Pope Clement XII

Question: What pope most recently issued Papal pronouncements against Freemasons?
Answer: Pope Leo XIII

Question: What action is forbid by the Orthodox Greek Church to Freemasons?
Answer: cannot partake of the Eucharist

Question: What is the official stance on Freemasonry by the Greek Orthodox Church?
Answer: cannot be at all compatible with Christianity

Question: What would happen if someone in the Greek Orthodox Church became a Freemason?
Answer: constitutes an act of apostasy

Question: When did the Orthodox Church of Greece proclaim being a Freemason was an act of apostacy?
Answer: 1933

Question: Which other major religions hold the same beliefs, on Freemasonry, as the Orthodox Church of Greece?
Answer: Roman Catholic and Protestant

Question: In what year did the Orthodox Church of Greece declare that being a Freemason constituted an act of apostasy?
Answer: 1933

Question: Freemasonry cannot be compatible with what according to the Orthodox Church?
Answer: Christianity

Question: Freemason cannot partake in what until they repent according to the Orthodox Church of Greece?
Answer: the Eucharist

Question: What belief is required of a candidate by the Grand Lodge?
Answer: belief in a Supreme Being

Question: Are candadites required to express belief in a specific religion?
Answer: few cases

Question: Which branch of Freemasonry does not require a belief in a supreme being?
Answer: Continental Freemasonry

Question: Which branch of Freemasonry accepts atheists?
Answer: "Liberal" or Continental

Question: Which branch of Freemasonry only accepts Christians?
Answer: Swedish Rite

Question: Most Grand Lodges require a candidate to declare a belief in what?
Answer: a Supreme Being

Question: Freemasons most common in Scandinavia only accept who as members?
Answer: Christians

Question: What Freemason group accept atheists?
Answer: the Grand Orient de France

Question: The Grand Orient de France is considered what type of Freemasonry?
Answer: Liberal" or Continental Freemasonry

Question: What is Exclusive Jurisdiction?
Answer: only one Grand Lodge will be recognised in any geographical area

Question: What happens if two Grand Lodges try to establish themselves in the same area?
Answer: the other Grand Lodges will have to choose between them

Question: What can happen if two over-lapping Grand Lodges are in Amity and decide to share jurisdiction?
Answer: Exclusive Jurisdiction can be waived

Question: If two over-lapping Grand Lodges are in Amity and decide to waive Exclusive Jurisdiction, who must the other Grand Lodges recognize?
Answer: recognise both

Question: What must other Grand Lodges do if two over-lapping Grand Lodges cannot agree to share the territory?
Answer: choose between them

Question: What concept only recognizes one Grand Lodge in a given geographical area?
Answer: Exclusive Jurisdiction

Question: In what year did the Grand Lodge of New York Split into two separate rival factions?
Answer: 1849

Question: When can Exclusive Jurisdiction be waived?
Answer: when the two over-lapping Grand Lodges are themselves in Amity and agree to share jurisdiction

Question: From what centuries are the earliest passwords and rituals of Freemasonry known?
Answer: 17th–18th

Question: What is the oldest Masonic lodge in the world?
Answer: Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1 in Scotland

Question: What were members who did not practice the physical craft known as?
Answer: accepted or speculative Masons

Question: When compared, how similar are the rituals and passwords from the turn of the 17 - 18 centuries to the ones from the later 18th century?
Answer: show continuity

Question: What is the oldest Masonic Lodge in the world?
Answer: the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1

Question: When was the Lodge of Edinburgh started?
Answer: 1598

Question: When did rituals become similar between different Masonic Lodges?
Answer: in the later 18th century

Question: Why was Prince Hall Freemasonry formed?
Answer: refusal of early American lodges to admit African-Americans

Question: When was Prince Hall Freemasonry formed?
Answer: 1775

Question: What happened when the UGLE was formed in 1813?
Answer: U.S.-based Lodges were stricken from their rolls

Question: What did Africian Lodge, Number 459 become after they were removed from the UGLE?
Answer: African Lodge, Number 1

Question: What was Africian Lodge, Number 1 considered after they changed from Africian Lodge, Number 459?
Answer: became a de facto "Grand Lodge"

Question: What exists today because of the refusal of early American lodges to admit African Americans?
Answer: Prince Hall Freemasonry

Question: In what year was Prince Hall admitted into the British military lodge?
Answer: 1775

Question: When was the African Lodge, number 459, formed?
Answer: 1784

Question: When was the UGLE formed?
Answer: 1813

Question: The African Lodge re-titled itself what?
Answer: the African Lodge, Number 1

Question: When was Maria Deraismes initiated into Freemasonry?
Answer: 1882

Question: Why did Deraismes resign from Freemasonry?
Answer: allow her lodge to rejoin their Grand Lodge

Question: What led to exclusively female bodies of Freemasons in England?
Answer: Disagreements over ritual

Question: Who, along with Maria Dersaismes, started a mixed gender masonic lodge?
Answer: Georges Martin

Question: Who brought the message of mixed gender, practicing masonic lodges to the English speaking?
Answer: Annie Besant