The Regular Grand Lodge of England
Organisation of Degrees, Orders, Ceremonies and Honours
The Regular Grand Lodge of England has sole Jurisdiction over Craft Freemasonry and confers the degrees of:
Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, and employs the ceremony of a Board of Installed Masters in which the Worshipful Master of a Lodge is installed and invested.
It confers the; Mark Mason degree on Master Masons in a regular craft lodge of Master Masons lowered to the Fellow Craft degree.
Grand Royal Arch Chapter
Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch
The degrees controlled by the Grand Royal Arch Chapter are:
- Royal Ark Mariner,
- Select Master, Royal Master, Most Excellent Master and Super Excellent Master,
- Royal Arch including the Ceremony of the Veils and the Inner Workings of Royal Arch Freemasonry as practised in the Crypt of York Minster since Antients times.
- Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priest
Appended Masonic Orders of Freemasonry
Concordant Bodies
- Ancient York Rite
4th Ancient Master;
5th Symbolic Elect, or Little Elect;
6th Ecossais of Heredon;
7th Mason of the Secret, or Royal Arch.
- The Ancient English Rite
4th Perfect Master
5th Elect, First degree
6th Elect, Second degree
7th Elect of Fifteen
8th Illustrious
9th Perfect Irish Master, Prevost and Judge
10th True English Master
11th Royal Arch
12th Apprentice, Fellowcraft Master Architect
13th Little Architect
14th Grand Architect
15th Ecossais Purifier
16th Grand Ecossais
17th True and Perfect Ecossais
18th Sublime Ecossais
19th Knight of the Temple
20th Knight of the East
21st Commander of the East
22nd Prince of Jerusalem
23rd Grand Master ad Vitam
24th Prussian Knight
25th Knight Kadosch- Early Grand Rite of Scotland
- The Scottish Rectified Rite
4th Scottish Master of Saint Andrew
5th Squire Novice
6th Knight Beneficent of the Holy City7th Profefss C+B+C+S
8th Grand Profess C+B+C+S
- The Ancient and Primitive Rite
Degrees 4th to 18th Chapter of the R+ C
Degrees 19th to 43rd Senate of Hermetic Philosophers
Degrees 44th to 90th Mystic Temple
Degrees 91st to 95th Sovereign Sanctuary
- The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
4th Apprentice Mason of Practice
5th Fellowcraft of Practice
6th Perfect Master
7th Perfect Irish Master
8th Little English Mater
9th English Master
10th English Master by Curiosity
11th English Master, or the Golden Ring
12th Secret Master
13th Master of the Lodge
14th Elected of the Nine,
15th Elected of P. or the Unknown
16th Elected of the Fifteen
17th Little Elect
18th Illustrious Master
19th Perfect Elected Master
20th Little English Elect
- Rite of Perfection
4th Secret Master
5th Perfect Master
6th Intimate Secretary, by curiosity
7th Provost & Judge & Tracing Board
8th Intendant of the Buildings & Tracing Board
9th Master Elect of Nine
10th Illustrious Elected of 15
11th Sublime Knights Elected & Tracing Board
12th Grand Master Architect
13th Knights of the Royal Arch
14th Perfection ultimate of Symbolic Masonry
15th Knights of the East
16th Princes of Jerusalem
17th Knights of the East and West
18th Knights of the White Eagle or Pelican
19th Scotch Masonry, by the name of Grand Pontiff
20th Sovereign Prince of Masonry or Master ad vitam
21st Prussian Knight or Noachite
22d Knights of the Royal Axe
23d Knights of the Sun, Princes Adept, Key of Masonry
24th Knights of Kadoch, The Nec plus Ultra of Masonry
25th The Royal Secret
- Rite Primitif of Namur 1770
4th Perfect Master
5th Irish Master
6th Elected of nine
7th Unknown Elected
8th Elected of fifteen
9th Illustrious Master
10th Perfect Elected
11th Ecossais Apprentice or Little Architect
12th Ecossais Fellowcraft or Great Architect
13th Sublime Architect or Scottish Master
14th Master of Perfect Architecture
15th Royal Arch
16th Noachite or Prussian Knight
17th Knight of the Sword or Knight of the East
18th Prince of Jerusalem
19th Worshipful Master ad vitam
20th Knight of the West
21st Knight of Palestine
22nd Knight Rose Croix
23th Sublime Ecossais Master
24th Knight of the Sun
25th Grand Ecossais Master of St Andrew
26th Mason of the Royal Secret
27th Knight of the Black Eagle
28th Knight Kadosh
29th Grand Elected of Verity
30th Novice of the Interior of the Temple
31st Knight of the Interior of the Temple
32nd Perfect of the Interior of the Temple
33th Commander of the Interior of the Temple
- The Ancient and Accepted Rite 1804
4th Secret Master
5th Perfect Master
6th Intimate Secretary
7th Provost and Judge
8th Intendant of the Building
9th Elected Master of Nine
10th Illustrious Elect of Fifteen
11th Sublime Knight Elect
12th Grand Master Architect
13th Royal Arch
14th Perfection, or Grand Ecossais of the Sacred Vault of James VI
15th Knight of the East
16th Prince of Jerusalem
17th Knight of the East and the West
18th Sovereign Prince Rose - Croix
19th Grand Pontiff, or Sublime Ecossais
20th Grand Master of Symbolic Lodges, or Master ad Vitam
21st The Noachite, or Prussian Knight
22nd Royal Axe, or Prince of Lebanon
23rd Chief of the Tabernacle
24th Prince of the Tabernacle
25th Knight of the Brazen Serpent
26th Prince of Mercy
27th Sovereign Commander of the Temple
28th Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept
29th Grand Master Ecossais of S Andrew, of Scotland
30th The Philosophic Kadosch, or Grand Elect Knight of the White and Black Eagle
31st Grand Inquisitor Commander
32nd Valiant & Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret
33th Grand Inspector General
Declaration of the Grand Lodge of the 3 Globes at Berlin
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