{"id":879,"date":"2016-06-09T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/?page_id=879"},"modified":"2016-06-09T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:12:42","slug":"chronology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/?page_id=879","title":{"rendered":"Chronology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"art-postcontent clearfix\">\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Chronology of The Knights of the Orthodox Order of Saint John Russian Grand Priory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>1046-48<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp; Approximate beginning of the brotherhood of St. John. Permission to build hospice given by Patriarch Nicephorus<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>1307-09<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp; Settling of the (Roman Catholic) Knights on the island of Rhodes<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1530&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; Settling of the (Roman Catholic) Knights on the island of Malta<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1698<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Emperor Peter the Great of Russia sends a delegation to Malta, headed by Field Marshall Boris Scheremeteff<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1775<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Polish Priory (Roman Catholic) becomes part of the German tongue<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1782&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; Heir-apparent, Grand Duke Paul of Russia pays a visit to Grand Master de Rohan on Malta<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1797<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Polish Priory (Roman Catholic) becomes part of the Russian Grand Priory<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1798<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1798&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; (June)&nbsp;&nbsp; Treaty drawn up between the Order<br \/>\nof Malta and Emperor Paul I of Russia who creates \u201cfor times eternal\u201d<br \/>\nthe Order of Malta for the nobility of the Orthodox Religion<br \/>\n\u201cconfession\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>1798&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; (11 June)&nbsp;&nbsp; Malta capitulates to Napoleon Bonaparte<\/li>\n<li><strong>1798<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (26 August)&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #F5250A;\">END OF ORIGINAL ANCIENT ORDER<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>1798<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (27 October)&nbsp;&nbsp; Emperor Paul I is elected Grand<br \/>\nMaster. Letter from Pope Pius welcoming Emperor Paul I. Letter from future<br \/>\nKing of France, Louis XVIII<\/li>\n<li><strong>1798<\/strong>&nbsp; (29 November)&nbsp;&nbsp; Emperor Paul I is invested<br \/>\nas Grand Master of the entire Order. Emperor Paul I creates 98<br \/>\ncommanderies for Russian nobles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1799<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; (October) Order\u2019s relics are transferred to Russia (Our Lady of<br \/>\nPhilermos). Hereditary Family Commanderies are created. Order consists<br \/>\nof four tongues: Russian; Italian\/Latin; French; German<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1801<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (22 March) Emperor Paul I is assassinated<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1802<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Island of Malta is restored to the Order (however, the Order did not resettle the island)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1803<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Emperor Alexander I is offered and refuses Grand Mastership. Order\u2019s headquarters remains in St. Petersburg<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1810<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Due to<br \/>\nthe cost of the Napoleonic wars, the financial status of the Order<br \/>\nchanges and the Roman Catholic branch is asked to leave Russia<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1811<\/span><\/strong> &nbsp; Commandery property becomes state property<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1817<\/span><\/strong> &nbsp; Permission to wear papal order\u2019s decoration refused in Russia<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1825<\/span><\/strong> &nbsp; Emperor Nicholas I restores the Orthodox and Catholic chapels at the Woronzoff palace (former headquarters)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1867<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Prince Alexander Troubetskoy is confirmed as Hereditary Family Commander by decree of Emperor Alexander II<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1902&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; Rome sends emissaries to St. Petersburg asking to restore the Roman Catholic branch<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1912<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Count Vladimir Armfeld is given permission to wear the medal of the Russian Order which can be passed on to his son<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1917<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Communist revolution ends all Imperial institutions \u2013 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ORDER GOES INTO EXILE<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1928<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nHereditary Family Commanders in exile gather and meet in Paris. Grand<br \/>\nDuke Alexander Mikhailovich accepts the position of Protector of the<br \/>\nOrder and writes to King Alfonso XIII of Spain requesting protection as<br \/>\nwritten by Emperor Nicholas II in 1914. The Order is registered in<br \/>\nFrance. A letter requesting recognition was sent to the SMOM<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1939<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; World War II<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #F5250A;\">1941<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp; Order\u2019s relics (kept by the dowager Empress Marie in Denmark) were transferred to a monastery in Montenegro<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1964<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Sir Harry Luke writes an article in Encyclopedia Britannica confirming the existence of the Russian Branch<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1973 &nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>Meeting<br \/>\n of the Hereditary Family Commanders and Russian aristocrats at the<br \/>\nresidence of Prince Serge Belosselski-Belozersky where Hereditary Family<br \/>\n Commander Count Nicholas Bobrinskoy is asked to revive the Order<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1974<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Count<br \/>\nBobrinskoy receives blessing and canonical recognition from Metropolitan<br \/>\n Iriney, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in America and<br \/>\nMetropolitan Philaret, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside<br \/>\nRussia<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1977<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1977<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (April)&nbsp;&nbsp; Order incorporated in the State of New York<\/li>\n<li><strong>1977&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; (16 May)&nbsp;&nbsp; Count Bobrinskoy unanimously elected Grand Prior and wrote to SMOM for recognition<\/li>\n<li><strong>1977<\/strong>&nbsp; (September)&nbsp;&nbsp; HH Prince Andrew of Russia<br \/>\n(eldest son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch and Grand Duchess<br \/>\nKsenia, sister of Emperor Nicholas II) accepts the duties of Imperial<br \/>\nProtector of the Order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1978<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (January)&nbsp;&nbsp; The Order receives qualified non-profit charitable organization 501(c)3 status from the US Federal government<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1981&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; (June)&nbsp;&nbsp; HH Prince Vassili (brother of Andrew) becomes Imperial Protector<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1990<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (November)&nbsp;&nbsp; HH Prince Michael (eldest son of Prince Andrew) becomes Imperial Protector<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1992<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;(November)&nbsp;&nbsp; His Holiness Aleksy II, The Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, <a title=\"Aleksy II Blessing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oosj.us\/?page_id=213\">bestows blessings<\/a> (in person to Count Bobrinskoy)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1996<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (February)&nbsp;&nbsp; Order receives NY tax exemption; registered with the NY State Bureau of Charities<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (12 July)&nbsp;&nbsp; Order is registered in Moscow, Russian Priory reestablished<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">1998<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (September) &nbsp; Commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Order in St. Petersburg, Priory reestablished<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">2003<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Commandery established in Ekaterinburg, Russia<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">2005<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Commandery established in Orenburg, Russia<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">2006<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (12 September) &nbsp; Grand Prior, Count Nicholas Bobrinskoy passed away<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">2007&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; (15 January) HH Prince Michael of Russia was elected Grand Prior<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">2009<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; (January) Hereditary Family Commander Count Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff elected Grand Prior<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #F5250A;\">2014 &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(245, 37, 10);\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2014<\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;Commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2014<\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;HH Prince Rostislav Romanov becomes Imperial Protector<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2014<\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;HH Prince Nicholas Romanovich Romanov named honorary Imperial Protector 2007-2014 posthumously<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2014<\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;Priory of Hawaii<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronology of The Knights of the Orthodox Order of Saint John Russian Grand Priory &nbsp;1046-48&nbsp;&nbsp; Approximate beginning of the brotherhood of St. John. Permission to build hospice given by Patriarch Nicephorus 1307-09&nbsp;&nbsp; Settling of the (Roman Catholic) Knights on the island of Rhodes 1530&nbsp;&nbsp; Settling of the (Roman Catholic) Knights on the island of Malta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":878,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-879","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oosj-rgp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}