page_title: Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)
section_title: Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (1995)
hierarchical_section_title: Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910) / Other Lazarite organisations / Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (1995)
caption_attribution_description: English: Dom Leopold Nisnoni, Rajah of Kupang and Grand Prior of Indonesia of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus
context_page_description: The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem is a Christian ecumenical fraternal order statuted in 1910 by a council of Catholics in Paris, France, initially under the protection of Patriarch Cyril VIII Jaha of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. In the 1920s it expanded its jurisdiction enrolling 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 royal family. It assumed an ecumenical dimension in the 1960s to expand its membership to individuals of other 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 Obedience and the Paris Obedience. In 2008, these rival obediences were reconciled and reunited into a single order once again, led by the late Grand Master Carlos Gereda y de Borbón, and with the Spiritual Protection of the Patriarch Gregorius III Laham of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
context_section_description: This body's website states that an organization called "United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem" was established in 1995. The organization is registered as a chivalric organisation within the United Nations and has a presence in many countries of the world with a membership of 14,000 Lazarites. It is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, with an administrative presence in Malta, under the leadership of Richard Comyns of Ludston (Supreme Grand Prior) and the spiritual direction of Mgr Joseph Vella Gauci (Grand Chaplain General). The organization claims to be chivalric, but makes no claim of being an order of chivalry descended directly from the original Order of Saint Lazarus, or from the order statuted in 1910. In 2020, on the 25th anniversary since the founding of the United Grand Priories, His Imperial Royal Highness Sandor Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria, was appointed Grand Prior-Elect of the organisation  together with a number of Grand Officers from various jurisdictions projecting the organisation's international presence.
  It is very active within international and European fora and is a member of various United Nations initiatives, Amnesty International, the European Disability Forum, the European Network of Independent Living, Inclusion International and other institutions. Several distinguished personalities, including heads of state, nobility and high ranking government ministers and public personalities are members of this chivalric organisation.
  The ranks of membership within this organisation are similar to other Lazarite chivalric organisations, starting from Member of the Order (MLJ), with the highest rank within the Order being that of Knight Grand Cross (GCLJ) or Dame Grand Cross of the Order. The organisation also has a prestigious Companionate of Merit of the Order for persons from all over the world who have aided and assisted the Order or who have performed meritorious philanthropic or social work in their career. Whilst membership of the Order is exclusively for Christians of all denominations, the Companionate of Merits is conferred regardless of religious affiliation. During investitures, members of the Order wear their black mantles with a green eight pointed cross. 
  Efforts to create a memorandum of understanding and cooperation agreements between the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus and the various obediences within the Military and Hospitaller Orders of Saint Lazarus were regularly brought up, especially during the years 2003/2004, but were never concluded in full.
caption: Dom Leopold Nisnoni, Rajah of Kupand and Grand Prior of Indonesia of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus
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