Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta

(Institute of Consecrated Life - Men)

Supremus Militaris Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani, Rhodiensis et Melitensis

Leader(s)

John Timothy Dunlap, S.M.O.M., Grand Master
Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., Cardinal, Patron
Raymond Leo Burke, Cardinal, Patron Emeritus

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Institute of Consecrated Life - Men
Founded: 1080
Mendicant Order
Official Web Site: https://www.orderofmalta.int
Mailing Address: Palazzo Magistrale, Via dei Condotti, 68, 00187 Roma, Italia
Telephone: 06.67.59.11

Past and Present Leaders

Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce, S.M.O.M. † (28 Mar 1879 Appointed - 24 Jan 1905 Died)
Galeas (Galeazzo) von Thun und Hohenstein, S.M.O.M. † (6 Mar 1905 Elected - 26 Mar 1931 Died)
Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, S.M.O.M. † (30 May 1931 Elected - 14 Nov 1951 Died)
Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, S.M.O.M. † (8 May 1962 Elected - 18 Jan 1988 Died)
Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, S.M.O.M. † (11 Apr 1988 Confirmed - 7 Feb 2008 Died)
Robert Matthew Festing, S.M.O.M. † (11 Mar 2008 Elected - 28 Jan 2017 Resigned)
Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, S.M.O.M. † (3 May 2018 Installed - 29 Apr 2020 Died)
John Timothy Dunlap, S.M.O.M. (3 May 2023 Elected - )

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
1080	Founded		Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
15 February 1113	Approbation		Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta

Statistics

Year Religious Priests Male Religious Houses Source

2024 6 32 13 ap2025

Affiliated Members, Living

Edgardo Fabián Antúnez-Percíncula Kaenel, S.J.
Joseph Atanga, S.J.
Antoine Audo, S.J.
Ján Babjak, S.J.
Donatien Bafuidinsoni Maloko-Mana, S.J.
Michael Charles Barber, S.J.
Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J.
Francesco Beneduce, S.J.
Gordon Dunlap Bennett, S.J.
Paolo Bizzeti, S.J.
Pietro Bovati, S.J.
Raymond Leo Burke (Patron: 8 Nov 2014 to 2 Feb 2017)
Stephen Chow Sau-yan, S.J.
Anthony James Corcoran, S.J.
Juan Vicente Cordoba Villota, S.J.
Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J.
Henri Coudray, S.J.
Alojzij Cvikl, S.J.
Michael Felix Czerny, S.J.
Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, S.J.
Joseph Gontrand Décoste, S.J.
Luis Serapio del Castillo Estrada, S.J.
Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges, S.J.
William D’Souza, S.J.
John Timothy Dunlap, S.M.O.M. (Member: 2004; Grand Master: 3 May 2023)
Stanislaus Fernandes, S.J.
Enrique Figaredo Alvargonzález, S.J.
Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J. (Patron: 19 Jun 2023)
Ernesto Giobando, S.J.
James Charles Gould, S.J.
Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves, S.J.
Mathias Gu Zheng, S.J.
Alexis Habiyambere, S.J.
Juan de Dios Hernández Ruiz, S.J.
Cosme Hoàng Văn Ðạt, S.J.
Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J.
Leo Jun Ikenaga, S.J.
Antuan Ilgit, S.J.
Marek Andrzej Inglot, S.J.
Aleksandr Kan, S.J.
Theodoros Kontidis, S.J.
Angelus Kujur, S.J.
Gabriel Kujur, S.J.
Milan Lach, S.J.
Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J.
Antonio Javellana Ledesma, S.J.
Joseph Lee Han-taek, S.J.
Daniele Libanori, S.J.
Stephan Lipke, S.J.
Jorge Rubén Lugones, S.J.
Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, S.J.
Alexander Aloysius (Alan) McGuckian, S.J.
Rodrigo Mejía Saldarriaga, S.J.
Janez Mihelčič, S.J.
Patras Minj, S.J.
Gregory O’Kelly, S.J.
Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J.
Fulgence Rabeony, S.J.
Fidelis Rakotonarivo, S.J.
Ángel Sixto Rossi, S.J.
Godfrey de Rozario, S.J.
Alessio Saccardo, S.J.
Hugo Manuel Salaberry Goyeneche, S.J.
Dieter Bernd Scholz, S.J.
Francis Serrao, S.J.
Carlos Arthur Sevilla, S.J.
Antonino Spadaro, S.J.
Sigitas Tamkevičius, S.J.
Paul Tan Chee Ing, S.J.
Julio César Terán Dutari, S.J.
John Baptist Thakur, S.J.
Felix Toppo, S.J.
Charles Louis Joseph Vandame, S.J.
Cyril Vasil’, S.J.
Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.
Lionginas Virbalas, S.J.
Gilberto Alfredo Vizcarra Mori, S.J.
Joseph Werth, S.J.

Affiliated Members, Deceased

Thomas Roch Agniswami, S.J. †
Juan Albacete Sáiz, S.J. †
Apollinaris de Almeida, S.J. †
Gaspar Alphonsus Álvares, S.J. †
Zenón Arámburu Urquiola, S.J. †
Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. †
Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona, S.J. †
Pedro de Arrupe y Gondra, S.J. †
Giovanni Andrea Avogadro, S.J. †
Fernando Azcárate y Freyre de Andrade, S.J. †
Sebastiano Baggio † (Patron: 26 May 1984 to 21 Mar 1993)
Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi, S.J. †
Julien Banckaert, S.J. †
Xavier-Marie Baronnet, S.J. †
Jean-Marie Barthe, S.J. †
Augustin Bea, S.J. †
Karl Josef Becker, S.J. †
Pieter Jan Beckx, S.J. †
Bernhard Beider-Linden, S.J. †
St. Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino, S.J. †
Pío Bello Ricardo, S.J. †
Francesco Benincasa, S.J. †
Luis Benitez y Cabañas, S.J. †
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. †
Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, S.M.O.M. † (Member: 14 Nov 1956; Grand Master: 11 Apr 1988 to 7 Feb 2008)
Tommaso Berutti, S.J. †
Thomas Bhalerao, S.J. †
Louis Billot, S.J. †
Pietro Boetto, S.J. †
George Theodore Boileau, S.J. †
André-Pierre (Andreas) Borgniet, S.J. †
Jonas Algimantas Boruta, S.J. †
Joseph du Bouchet, S.J. †
Pierre Bouckaert, S.J. †
Teotónio de Bragança, S.J. †
Francis Leo Braganza, S.J. †
Leopold Brellinger, S.J. †
Etienne de Brito, S.J. †
Otto Wilhelm von Bronckhorst zu Gronsfeld, S.J. †
John Joseph Brown, S.J. †
Robert Edwin Brown, S.J. †
Henri-Joseph Bulté, S.J. †
Lawrence Aloysius Burke, S.J. †
Anthony Butler, S.J. †
John Butler, S.J. †
Alexis Canoz, S.J. †
Melchior Miguel Carneiro Leitão, S.J. †
George Aloysius Carrell, S.J. †
Samuel Emmanuel Carter, S.J. †
Cipriano Cassini, S.J. †
Abbondio Cavadini, S.J. †
Jean-Baptiste Cazet, S.J. †
Luís Cerqueira, S.J. †
Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce, S.M.O.M. † (Member: 21 Feb 1856; Grand Master: 28 Mar 1879 to 24 Jan 1905)
Aston Ignatius (Sebastian Joseph) Chichester, S.J. †
Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, S.M.O.M. † (Grand Master: 30 May 1931 to 14 Nov 1951)
Benigno Chiriboga, S.J. †
Alessandro Ciceri (Cicero), S.J. †
Juan Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazón, S.J. †
Francisco Funaay Claver, S.J. †
José Clos y Pagés, S.J. †
Clemente José Colaço Leitão, S.J. †
François Maria Collet, S.J. †
John Joseph Collins, S.J. †
James Corboy, S.J. †
Diego Correia (Carreia) Valente, S.J. †
Philippe Côté, S.J. †
Joseph Raphael John Crimont, S.J. †
Carlo Ilario Currea, S.J. †
Alphonse Daignault, S.J. †
Theodore Dalhoff, S.J. †
Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, S.M.O.M. † (Grand Master: 3 May 2018 to 29 Apr 2020)
Paul-Pierre-Yves Dalmais, S.J. †
Jean Guénolé Louis Marie Daniélou, S.J. †
Charles Dauvin, S.J. †
Luc Alfons De Hovre, S.J. †
José Carlos de Lima Vaz, S.J. †
Giovanni Battista della Pietra, S.J. †
Luis Valdesco Del Rosario, S.J. †
Henri-Marie de Lubac, S.J. †
Henri Joseph Depelchin, S.J. †
Paolo Dezza, S.J. †
Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d’Herbigny, S.J. †
Pascual José Díaz y Barreto, S.J. †
Joseph Nicholas Dinand, S.J. †
Salvatore di Pietro, S.J. †
Adrianus Djajasepoetra, S.J. †
Heinrich Döring (Doëring), S.J. †
Salvator dos Reis, S.J. †
João Batista Du Drenéuf, S.J. †
Alphonsus Flavian D’Souza, S.J. †
Édouard-Auguste Dubar, S.J. †
Peter Dubovský, S.J. †
Avery Robert Dulles, S.J. †
James Eustace Dupeyron, S.J. †
Pedro Duque de Rivera, S.J. †
Ricardo Durand Flórez, S.J. †
Franziskus Ehrle, S.J. †
Philip Ekka, S.J. †
Thomas Addis Emmet, S.J. †
Federico Ocampo Escaler, S.J. †
John Baptist Esseiva, S.J. †
James Etheridge, S.J. †
Eugene Edward Fahy, S.J. †
Ange-Auguste Faisandier, S.J. †
Joseph Fan Zhong-Liang, S.J. †
Thomas John Feeney, S.J. †
Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S.J. †
Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, S.J. †
Robert Matthew Festing, S.M.O.M. † (Member: 1977; Grand Master: 11 Mar 2008 to 28 Jan 2017)
Marc Finaz, S.J. †
Walter James Fitzgerald, S.J. †
Oskar Formánek, S.J. †
Jean François Fouquet, S.J. †
Etienne Fourcadier, S.J. †
Johann Baptist Franzelin, S.J. †
Henrique Froehlich, S.J. †
Felipe Antonio Gallego Gorgojo, S.J. †
Compton Theodore Galton, S.J. †
Santiago María García de la Rasilla Domínguez, S.J. †
Ignacio García Martin, S.J. †
Francisco Garcia Mendes, S.J. †
Valentin Garnier, S.J. †
Ignatius Gartlan, S.J. †
Henri Ghuez, S.J. †
Daniel Gil Zorrilla, S.J. †
Paolo Giobbe † (Patron: 8 Aug 1961 to 14 Aug 1972)
Charles Givelet, S.J. †
Francis Doyle Gleeson, S.J. †
Ignatius Philip Trigueros Glennie, S.J. †
Casimir Gnanadickam, S.J. †
Paul François Marie Goethals, S.J. †
Charles Gomes, S.J. †
Linus Nirmal Gomes, S.J. †
Joseph Gonnet, S.J. †
Alban Goodier, S.J. †
Charles Menzies Gordon, S.J. †
Alois Grillmeier, S.J. †
Joseph Guffens, S.J. †
Richard Lester Guilly, S.J. †
Auguste Alphonse Pierre Haouisée, S.J. †
Renato Hasche Sánchez, S.J. †
James Thomas Gibbons Hayes, S.J. †
Roger Joseph Heckel, S.J. †
Peter Henrici, S.J. †
José Félix Heredia Zurita, S.J. †
David Francis Hickey, S.J. †
Pavel Mária Hnilica, S.J. †
Robert Louis Hodapp, S.J. †
Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart, S.J. †
Frederick Charles Hopkins, S.J. †
Antonio de Hornedo Correa, S.J. †
Vicente Huarte y San Martín, S.J. †
Philippe d’Huberland, S.J. †
José María Izuzquiza Herranz, S.J. †
Jean-Baptiste Janssens, S.J. †
Aloysius Jin Lu-xian, S.J. †
Alfred James Jolson, S.J. †
Francisco Javier Junguito, S.J. †
Hermann Jürgens (Juergens), S.J. †
Dominik Kalata, S.J. †
Michael Joseph Kaniecki, S.J. †
Vincent Ignatius Kennally, S.J. †
Johann Heinrich von Kerens, S.J. †
Pius Kerketta, S.J. †
Henry Schomberg Kerr, S.J. †
Ignace Abdo Khalifé, S.J. †
Agostinho Willy Kist, S.J. †
Ernest Kombo, S.J. †
Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J. †
Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. †
Nicolas Kujur, S.J. †
Jan Franciszek Kurdwanowski, S.J. †
Ferdinand Lacretelle, S.J. †
Pio Laghi † (Patron: 8 May 1993 to 10 Jan 2009)
Gottfried Xaver von Laimbeckhoven, S.J. †
Adrien-Hyppolyte Languillat, S.J. †
Pierre de la Raffinie, S.J. †
John Larkin, S.J. †
Nicola Laudadio, S.J. †
Charles Lavigne, S.J. †
Francisco Laynez, S.J. †
Aloysio José Leal Penna, S.J. †
Henri Lécroart, S.J. †
André Lefèbvre, S.J. †
Mathurin Lemaître, S.J. †
Jean Pierre Leonard, S.J. †
Henri de Lespinasse de Saune, S.J. †
Gáspár Lischerong, S.J. †
[John Liu Ding-han], S.J. †
José María Lizarzabaru y Borja, S.J. †
Paul Li Zhenrong, S.J. †
José Alberto Llaguno Farias, S.J. †
Santiago López de Rego y Labarta, S.J. †
Charles de Lorraine-Chaligny, S.J. †
Juan de Lugo y de Quiroga, S.J. †
Edmundus Sybrandus Luijpen (Luypen), S.J. †
Paul Lungu, S.J. †
Andrés Machado, S.J. †
Marius Macrionitis, S.J. †
Luis Manresa Formosa, S.J. †
Henri Maquet, S.J. †
George Marin, S.J. †
Francis William Markall, S.J. †
Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J. †
Salvador Martinez Aguirre, S.J. †
Luis Mario Martínez de Lejarza Valle, S.J. †
Carlo Maria Martini, S.J. †
Martino de Martini, S.J. †
Pedro Martins (Martinez), S.J. †
João Evangelista Martins Terra, S.J. †
Camillo Mazzella, S.J. †
John Joseph McEleney, S.J. †
Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. †
Federico Melendro y Gutiérrez, S.J. †
Alfonso Mendes, S.J. †
Luciano Pedro Mendes de Almeida, S.J. †
Nikolaus Messmer, S.J. †
Alejandro Mestre Descals, S.J. †
Brice Meuleman, S.J. †
Johann Gabriel Léon Louis Meurin, S.J. †
John Baptiste Miège, S.J. †
Attila Miklósházy, S.J. †
Michael Minj, S.J. †
Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, S.M.O.M. † (Grand Master: 7 Dec 1940 to 18 Jan 1988)
José Monteiro, S.J. †
Sebastião Monteiro da Vida, S.J. †
Sebastião de Morais, S.J. †
Carlos Arturo Mullín Nocetti, S.J. †
Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.J. †
Luis Javier Muñoz y Capurón, S.J. †
Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo, S.J. †
Joseph Aloysius Charles Murphy, S.J. †
George Vance Murry, S.J. †
Pál Napholcz (Napholz), S.J. †
Urbano Navarrete Cortés, S.J. †
Martin Joseph Neylon, S.J. †
Johann Eberhard Nidhard (Neidhardt), S.J. †
Antoni Niemancewicz, S.J. †
Alfredo Noriega Arce, S.J. †
Severinus Noti, S.J. †
Viktor Novikov (Makovski), S.J. †
João Nunes Barreto, S.J. †
Ángel María Ocampo Berrio, S.J. †
Michael J. O’Connor, S.J. †
Niccolò Oddi, S.J. †
Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. †
Cyprian Odyniec, S.J. †
William Francis O’Hare, S.J. †
José Oleaga Guerequiz, S.J. †
Luis Enrique Orellana Ricaurte, S.J. †
Benedict John Osta, S.J. †
Andrés de Oviedo, S.J. †
Honesto Chaves Pacana, S.J. †
Nicolaus Maria Pagani, S.J. †
Jules Prosper París, S.J. †
Antulio Parrilla-Bonilla, S.J. †
Edward Parry, S.J. †
Aldo Maria Patroni, S.J. †
José Telésphor Paúl y Vargas, S.J. †
Péter Pázmány, S.J. †
Giuseppe Pecci, S.J. †
Andrés Justo Pérez, S.J. †
Ferdinand Périer, S.J. †
Paolo Carlo Perini, S.J. †
Pierre Charles (Paul) Philippe, O.P. † (Patron: 10 Nov 1978 to 9 Apr 1984)
Lawrence Trevor Picachy, S.J. †
József Ferenc Pierer, S.J. †
Antonio Pimentel, S.J. †
Joaquín Piña Batllevell, S.J. †
José Pinheiro, S.J. †
Edwin Pinto, S.J. †
Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. †
Benoit Planchet, S.J. †
Charles Plowden, S.J. †
Franciszek Podkański, S.J. †
George Porter, S.J. †
Thomas Porter, S.J. †
Valentin Pozaić, S.J. †
Roberto Maria del Pozo y Martin (García Del Pozo), S.J. †
Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, S.J. †
Eduard Profittlich, S.J. †
Leone Proserpio, S.J. †
Franz von Raigesfeld, S.J. †
Charles-Remy Rakotonirina, S.J. †
João de Deus Ramalho, S.J. †
Gilbert Ramanantoanina, S.J. †
Philibert Randriambololona, S.J. †
Victor Razafimahatratra, S.J. †
Helmut Reckter, S.J. †
Jean-Baptiste René, S.J. †
João Ribeiro, S.J. †
William Aloysius Rice, S.J. †
Angelo Maria Rivato, S.J. †
Thomas Roberts, S.J. †
Gaston Robichez, S.J. †
João da Rocha, S.J. †
Francis Tiburtius Roche, S.J. †
Joseph Robert Rodericks, S.J. †
Joachim Rodrigues Lima, S.J. †
Francisco Rodríguez, S.J. †
Johannes Peter Franziskus Ross, S.J. †
Alexis Ruel, S.J. †
Maximilien Ryłło, S.J. †
Ramón Salas Valdés, S.J. †
Giovanni Battista Salerni, S.J. †
Enrique San Pedro, S.J. †
Paolo Sardi † (Pro-Patron: 6 Jun 2009; Patron: 20 Nov 2010 to 8 Nov 2014)
Victor Alphonse Marie Sartre, S.J. †
George Victor Saupin, S.J. †
Anthony Joseph Schuler, S.J. †
Diego Secco, S.J. †
Oscar Sevrin, S.J. †
Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. †
Anthony Francis Sharma, S.J. †
John Richard Sheets, S.J. †
Antonio da Silva, S.J. †
Alonso Silveira de Mello, S.J. †
Jean-Baptiste Simon, S.J. †
Mijo Škvorc, S.J. †
Albert Soegijapranata, S.J. †
Leo Soekoto, S.J. †
Charles Soreng, S.J. †
Polycarpo de Sousa (Souza), S.J. †
Tomáš Josef Špidlík, S.J. †
Francisco Spinola, S.J. †
Walterus Staal, S.J. †
Andreas Steinhuber, S.J. †
Walter Herman Jacobus Steins (Bisschop), S.J. †
Robert St-Léger, S.J. †
Bernard James Sullivan, S.J. †
Julianus Kemo Sunarko, S.J. †
John Lancelot Swain, S.J. †
Richard Sykes, S.J. †
Nicolaus Szarvas, S.J. †
Pál Szegedy, S.J. †
François Xavier Tabao Manjarimanana, S.J. †
Dominic Tang Yee-ming (Deng Yiming), S.J. †
Camillo Tarquini, S.J. †
Xavier Ferdinand J. Thoyer, S.J. †
Galeas (Galeazzo) von Thun und Hohenstein, S.M.O.M. † (Member: 8 Jun 1875; Grand Master: 6 Mar 1905 to 26 Mar 1931)
Leo Tigga, S.J. †
Francisco de Toledo Herrera, S.J. †
Giovanni Battista Tolomei, S.J. †
Paschal Topno, S.J. †
Rafael Toro Upegui, S.J. †
Paschal Tosi, S.J. †
Roberto Tucci, S.J. †
Carlo Giovanni Turcotti, S.J. †
James Oliver Van de Velde, S.J. †
Sylvain van Hee, S.J. †
Auguste Van Heule, S.J. †
Louis Van Hoeck, S.J. †
Albert Vanhoye, S.J. †
Joseph van Reeth, S.J. †
Henri van Schingen, S.J. †
Anton Pieter Franz van Velsen, S.J. †
Augusto Vargas Alzamora, S.J. †
Fernando Vargas Ruiz de Somocurcio, S.J. †
Francisco de Vasconcellos, S.J. †
João Luis Vasconcellos, S.J. †
Ignacio León Velasco, S.J. †
Henri Véniat, S.J. †
Laureano Vérez (Veres) de Acevedo, S.J. †
Alphonse Verwimp, S.J. †
Pietro Andrea (Pierre-André) Viganò, S.J. †
Joaquín Vilallonga y Bernia, S.J. †
Louis de Vilette (Villette), S.J. †
Giacomo Violardo † (Patron: 3 Jul 1969 to 17 Mar 1978)
Claude Visdelou, S.J. †
Stanislas-Marie-Liévin de Vos, S.J. †
Jan Kazimierz Waza, S.J. †
Jan Olbracht Waza (Wazy), S.J. †
Joseph (François) Webber, S.J. †
Alfred Weld, S.J. †
George Weld, S.J. †
Robert Louis Whelan, S.J. †
Augustine Francis Wildermuth, S.J. †
Pieter Jan Willekens, S.J. †
Josef Winterl, S.J. †
Bruno Wolnik, S.J. †
Joseph Sidney Woollett, S.J. †
Georges Xenopulos, S.J. †
Aghnatios Elias Yaacoub, S.J. †
Antonino Zecchini, S.J. †
[Louis Zhang Jia-shu (Chang Kia Shu)], S.J. †
Francis Xavier Zhao Zhen-sheng (Chao Cheng-sheng), S.J. †
Simon Zhu Kai-min (Chu or Tsu Kai-min), S.J. †

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