Knights Templar Priests
& the Order of Holy Wisdom

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Welcome to the website for District 15 (Surrey) of The Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests and Order of Holy Wisdom....

As District Grand Superintendent for District 15 of The Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests and Order of Holy Wisdom, I welcome you most sincerely to this, our website. It has been constructed in the hope that it will help all visitors, whether prospective or current members of our Priestly Orders, seeking information about the Orders in general and District 15, in particular.

The Orders, which require their members to be Trinitarian Christians and for applicants to be subscribing members of the United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple, (Knights Templar) or other recognised Templar Order, are expanding considerably across the United Kingdom and, indeed, the globe. District 15, which covers the Masonic Province of Surrey, is playing its part in this expansion with a new Tabernacle consecrated in October 2018 at Glenmore House, Surbiton, The North Downs Tabernacle. This is the seventh of this District and has been allocated the number 299. The Tabernacle meets at Nutfield.

Within the pages of this website you will be able to find information about the Orders, the District and its Tabernacles along with the regalia worn by Knights Priests of the Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests and by Companions of the Order of Holy Wisdom. Also included is a calendar noting the meetings of each of the Tabernacles of District 15 and Especial Assemblies of Grand College, the ruling body of our Orders. In addition, there are details explaining how to become a member of these wonderful Christian Orders.

I do hope that you will find this website both useful and informative.

R.Em.Kt.Pt. Jack Love, KCPO
District Grand Superintendent - District 15

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The Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests and the Order of Holy Wisdom

This Order has its foundation in Ireland where records exist of workings in the late 18th century. In 1895 The Royal Kent Tabernacle was created at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and, while the Order of Knight Templar Priests was for a time under the jurisdiction of the Grand Council of Allied Masonic Degrees, this Tabernacle continued to confer the Degree. The present Grand College was formed at Newcastle in 1923 and has expanded its influence to Australia, New Zealand, and other Countries of the world.

There are essentially thirty-three Degrees conferred by the Order of Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priest. The first thirty-one of them are conferred by name, the thirty-second Degree, that being the working Degree, while the Degree of Installed High Priest would be the thirty-third.

To be considered for membership of this deeply significant Order, you MUST be a subscribing member of a Craft Lodge, a Royal Arch Chapter and a Knights Templar Preceptory. You MUST also be a Master Mason of three years standing AND profess the Trinitarian Christian Faith.

The recently reintroduced ceremony of the Order of Holy Wisdom differs from the Appendant Degrees in that there is a specific question/requirement in the ritual regarding membership of the Knight Templar Priests. This ceremony was worked in the 18th century, but it required a lot of costly equipment and at least two rooms for the ceremony to take place. The new abridged ritual maintains the spirit of the original whilst eliminating much of the cost involved.

K.T.P. & O.H.W.

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Knights Templar Priests
& the Order of Holy Wisdom

The Companion Orders

The Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests and the Order of Holy Wisdom

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