This is a list of grand masters of the Knights Hospitaller, including its continuation as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta after 1798. It also includes unrecognized "anti-grand masters" and lieutenants or stewards during vacancies.

He led the Order of Malta as Lieutenant of the Grand Master since June 2022, following the death of Fra’ Marco Luzzago. He was elected Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta on 3 May 2023. The Grand Master is elected by the Council Complete of State for a term of ten years from amongst the Professed Knights.

View a list of all the seventy-nine Order of Malta's Grand Masters dating back to the 1100s, the birth of the Order of St. John .

The Grand Master is elected for life from among the Professed Knights by the Council Complete of State. According to the Constitution, as the religious Superior and Sovereign, he fully dedicates himself to develop the works of the Order and to set a …

He led the Order of Malta as Lieutenant of the Grand Master from June 2022, following the death of Fra’ Marco Luzzago, until his election as the 81st Grand Master of the Order of Malta in May 2023. The Grand Master is elected for ten years by the Council Complete of State.

The Prince and Grand Master Religious superior and Sovereign of the Order of Malta. The Grand Master is elected for ten years from the Professed Knights by the Council Complete of State.

2023年3月5日 · Fra’ John Dunlap has been elected Prince and 81 st Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Lieutenant of the Grand Master at the moment of his election, 66-year-old Fra’ John Dunlap, a Canadian, is the first Professed Knight from the Americas to be elected as head of the Order of Malta.

The founder and first Grand Master of the Order was born around 1040 in Scala, a village a few kilometres from Amalfi in southern Italy. In the second half of the 11th century he went to Jerusalem where he began to work in the hospital next to the church of St. Mary Latin, built by Amalfi merchants to receive pilgrims and tend the sick.

The grand priories of Lombardy-Venetia and of Sicily were restored from 1839 to 1841. The office of Grand Master was restored by Pope Leo XIII in 1879, after a vacancy of 75 years, confirming Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce as the first Grand Master of the restored Order of Malta.

Religious superior and Sovereign of the Order of Malta The Grand Master is elected for ten years by the Council Complete of State. According to the Constitution, as the religious Superior and Sovereign, he must fully dedicate himself to the development of the works of the Order and set an example of living by Christian principles to all the ...