{"id":502,"date":"2017-03-09T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/?page_id=502\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:56:18","slug":"sovereign-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/the-order-of-malta\/government\/sovereign-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/NICU0433_2-3-705x470.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6323\" width=\"779\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/NICU0433_2-3-705x470.jpeg 705w, https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/NICU0433_2-3-303x202.jpeg 303w, https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/NICU0433_2-3-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/NICU0433_2-3-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/NICU0433_2-3-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/NICU0433_2-3.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"main-block-wrapper clearfix\">\n    <div class=\"main-block-wrapper clearfix\">\n        <p><strong><a>Government of the Sovereign Order of Malta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n        <p>The Sovereign Council assists the Lieutenant of the Grand Master in the government of the Order of Malta. It is composed of the Lieutenant of the Grand Master, who presides over it, the holders of the four High Charges (Grand Commander, Grand Chancellor, Grand Hospitaller and Receiver of the Common Treasure) and nine members.<\/p>\n        <p>Apart from the Lieutenant of the Grand Master, the members of the Sovereign Council are elected for a six-year term. The four High Charges and four Councillors are elected by the Chapter General. The other five Councillors are elected by the Chapter of the Professed.<\/p>\n        <p>The Sovereign Council is called by the Lieutenant of the Grand Master and meets at the seat of the Order of Malta at least six times a year and whenever special circumstances require it.<\/p>\n        <p><strong>Grand Master<\/strong><br \/>S.A.E. Fra\u2019 John T. Dunlap<\/p>\n        <p>\u00a0<\/p>\n        <div>\n            <p><strong>SOVEREIGN COUNCIL (2023-2029)<\/strong><\/p>\n            <p><strong>Grand Commander<\/strong><br \/>S.E. Fra\u2019 Emmanuel Rousseau<\/p>\n            <p><strong>Grand Chancellor<\/strong><br \/>S.E. Riccardo Patern\u00f2 di Montecupo<\/p>\n            <p><strong>Grand Hospitaller<\/strong><br \/>S.E. Josef D. Blotz<\/p>\n            <p><strong>Receiver of the Common Treasure<\/strong><br \/>S.E. Fabrizio Colonna<\/p>\n            <p><strong>MEMBERS<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n            <p>S.E. Fra&#8217; Richard J. Wolff<br \/>S.E. Fra&#8217; John Eidinow<br \/>S.E. Fra&#8217; Jo\u00e3o Augusto Esquivel Freire de Andrade<br \/>S.E. Fra\u2019 Thomas N. Mulligan<br \/>S.E. Fra\u2019 Nicola Tegoni<br \/>S.E. Francis Joseph McCarthy<br \/>S.E. Michael Kirk Grace<br \/>S.E. Clemente Riva di Sanseverino<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government of the Sovereign Order of Malta The Sovereign Council assists the Lieutenant of the Grand Master in the government of the Order of Malta. It is composed of the Lieutenant of the Grand Master, who presides over it, the holders of the four High Charges (Grand Commander, Grand Chancellor, Grand Hospitaller and Receiver of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":292,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-rsidebar.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions\/6925"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}