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  1. The Order's membership includes about 13,500 Knights, Dames and Chaplains. [7] . Thirty-three of these are professed religious Knights of Justice. [2] . Until the 1990s, the highest classes of membership, including officers, required proof of noble lineage.

  2. Sep 3, 2022 · VATICAN CITY, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order and humanitarian group, and installed a...

  3. Knights of Malta. In the 11th century the Knights of Malta, known then as ‘Knights Hospitaller’, established a hospital in Jerusalem to care for pilgrims of any religious faith or origin. The work of the hospitallers grew in fame and in 1113 Pope Paschal II officially recognised the monastic community as a lay religious order.

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  4. Jan 19, 2011 · Who Are the Knights of Malta — and What Do They Want? They're a secretive religious order with a long and bloody history and unique status under international law, but that doesn't mean they...

  5. Feb 9, 2013 · The Knights of Malta may be 900 years old, but the order sees itself as relevant to the modern world, David Willey reports.

  6. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, commonly known as the Order of Malta or Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric, and noble nature.

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