The Prince-Abbot has been appointed as a Knight Majus in the Byzantine Order of Leo the Armenian. The Order is the house order of the Dynastic House Polanie-Patrikios, established by the Most Revd. Prince Kermit Poling as the union of his paternal and maternal ancestry. Prince Kermit is the senior living member of the San Luigi Orders, having been admitted to all three Orders by Prince-Abbot Edmond II, and traces his ancestry to several of the Byzantine Emperors.