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Great Priory of England Withdraws Recognition of the Grand Encampment of the USA

Blake Bowden

Administrator
Staff Member
Great Priory of England Vote to Withdraw Recognition of the Grand Encampment of the USA

I was sent an e-mail with the below image showing of a letter from the Great Priory to Provincial Priors that on the 26th of November the Grand Master's Council voted to recommend at the 15 May 2013 Great Priory meeting that recognition be withdrawn from the Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar of the United States of America.

While reason is not stated in the letter, this most likely stems from the Grand Encampment of USA recognizing the Grand Priory of the Scottish Reformed and Rectified Rite of the U.S.A earlier this year.

As I wrote earlier, the Grand Priory of the Scottish Reformed and Rectified Rite is not permitted for Texas Masons, while the international developments continue...

S&F,
-Bro Vick
Masons of Texas - Writer

LettertoallProvPriorsandV-C_sreGrandEncampmentUSA.jpg
 

Bro_Vick

Moderator
Premium Member
Thanks for the update Blake.

Where's the love? ;) I am the one that sent it to him.

Seriously, the ripple of this may be worse than it appears on the surface. Specifically to some of the invitational aspects of Christian Freemasonry.

S&F,
-Bro Vick
 

Brent Heilman

Premium Member
Where's the love? ;) I am the one that sent it to him.

Seriously, the ripple of this may be worse than it appears on the surface. Specifically to some of the invitational aspects of Christian Freemasonry.

S&F,
-Bro Vick

That was the question I had. I am not a part of the York Rite yet, but will be eventually and I was curious to what extent that may affect me down the road when going into the Commandery.
 

Brother JC

Moderating Staff
Staff Member
It's not the Great Priory of Scotland that is the issue, it's the Grand Priory of the Scottish Reformed and Rectified Rite. Completely different animals.

The Grand Encampment recently recognized said Rite, and the Great Priory of England does not.
 
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suomilander

Registered User
the letter indicates that the "die has been cast" and May 15th is just the formal execution of the decision.
the letter states that priory members are to avoid meetings involving the Grand Encampment ...pretty clear they don't like the R&R.
Grand Encampment will stick its head in the sand and refuse to withdraw its ill-advise recognition of R&R.
Does the R&R advocate that they can confer all the degrees of Freemasonry? If true I know of no GL that would allow that.
If untrue then the R&R better hire a better PR company.
 
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