Government
and Decorations
The Sacred
Military Constantinian Order of St. George is run by
the Grand Master, helped by the Royal
Delegation, formed by the most important people:
Grand Prefect, Grand Prior,
Grand Inquisitor, Grand Chancellor
and Grand Treasurer, the President,
the Vice President, the Secretary,
and present Deputies.
Its present Grand Master, His Royal Highness
Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke
of Castro and Head of the Royal House, is also
helped by a Magisterial Juridical Council
and by a Counsellor for Dynastic Orders and Orders of
Knighthood.
The Grand Master is life-administrator of the Order
and can promulgate new laws and statutes as well as
appoint the highest institutional positions to which
he will give the moral, disciplinary and administrative
rule of the Order.
The position of Grand Prefect is held by HRH
Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke di Calabria, heir
of the Duke of Castro.
The Knights and Ladies are divided into four Categories:
Justice, Special,
Grace and Merit. The
Order is structured with Delegations
and territorial deputations in many countries of
the world and has Delegations also in every Italian
region.
Many ecclesiastic personalities are members of the Order
and guarantee the pursuit of Christian values and service
to the Catholic Church, as established in the Statutes.
The most important ecclesiastic representative is the
Grand Prior: presently S.E. Cardinal Mario F. Pompedda
holds this position.
The seat of the Grand Magistery is at the Grand Master’s
residence whereas the seat of the Grand Chancellery
is in Naples and the Secretariat of the Order is located
in Rome, 121 Via Sistina.
A special symbolic importance is given to the decoration
of the Order: a Greek Cross of 50 mm, with four lilied
and golden hedged limbs, enamelled in purple colour
and bearing the letters ISHV at their four edges and
the XP monogram in the middle, between the Greek letters
A and .
The Cross is topped by a golden Royal Crown hanging
from a golden Arms Trophy with flags, cannons, arrows,
quiver, halberds, drums and crossed swords that support
the armour crowned by a plumed helm. A golden image
of a mounted St. George killing the dragon hangs down
from the Cross.
The ribbon of the Order is in blue silk.
The use of insignia on the Italian territory is authorised
by Decree of the President of the Republic; it is now
the concern of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic. |
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Complete
insignia
from Balì Knight
of Grand Cross of Justice
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Ancient plates of the
Sacred Military Constantinian
Order of St. George
(early XIX century) |