By order of H.M. the Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara, Royal Patron of the Order of the Crown of Thorns and of the Order of the Lion and the Black Cross, the following Royal Bulletin has been issued:

>>Royal Bulletin 46: Royal Decisions

As a postscript to our recent profile of Archbishop Emile Rodriguez y Fairfield, we are pleased to reproduce this 1984 article about him by Archbishop Paul Schultz. Click the article images below to enlarge them to reading size.

The photograph below was taken at a private presentation ceremony of the San Luigi Orders at St Severin’s Abbey, Kaufbeuren, Germany. At the ceremony, San Luigi Grand Prior for Continental Europe the Most Revd. Dom Klaus Schlapps OPR, Duke of Saih Nasra, invested His Excellency Honourable Colonel Andrew Tiberius Adam Rhédey von Kis-Rhede with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Thorns and the Order of the Lion and the Black Cross. The photograph shows Dom Klaus presenting the brevets of appointment accompanied by H.E. Armin Ziegler, Prefect of the Confraternitas Oecumenica Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani, Bavaria.

The Prince-Abbot has been appointed to the office of Prelate – Knight Grand Cross of Justice in the Commandery of Carpathia of the Order of St John Knights Hospitaller – Russian Grand Priory.

Already a member of the Russian Grand Priory by virtue of his office as a chaplain within the British Association, the present appointment strengthens the Prince-Abbot’s links with the Russian Grand Priory through association with another commandery of the same Order, this commandery being established by the late Prince Michael of Russia in 2005.