A military order (Latin: militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the ...
It was fashioned after the military orders of the Crusades, requiring its initiates to defend the cross and fight the enemies of Christianity, ...
Despite being older than the Catholic Church and having been endorsed by eastern empires, I hadn't seen any Orthodox knightly orders. I know that this may be ...
Although Paul I was the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, he assumed leadership of the Roman Catholic order. 19th century – October Revolution of 1917[ ...
We aim to uphold the tenants of the Judeo-Christian heritage and the virtues and ideals of Chivalric Knighthood of the Orthodox Constantine Order of Chivalry.
When Jerusalem was conquered by Christians during the First Crusade in 1099, a Papal charter was issued to the Hospitallers as a religious and military order ...
The Order fulfilled its military and spiritual role in defending Christianity and at the ... of St. Constantine the Great rests on the shoulders of the Orthodox Church.
Our modern Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller ( Sovereign Order) is a Christian, chivalric, ecumenical and international community ...
As an Orthodox confraternal order of knighthood, the Order is open to any Orthodox Christian (both male and female, cleric or lay) who is in good and moral ...
OSMTH/SMOTJ are an ecumenical Christian order with Protestant, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic Knights. It will never be, nor never seek to be, under papal ...