Partnerships with Aracne Editrice, Aracne TV, La Bussola Edizioni and Prof. Dr. Gioacchino Onorati

A number of organizations under the auspices of the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi have received Diplomas of Cultural Merits from the publishing houses Aracne EditriceLa Bussola Edizioni and Aracne TV, based in Rome, Italy, and their founder Prof. Dr Gioacchino Onorati. A mutual relationship of recognition exists with these bodies.

The Apostolic Episcopal Church

The Byelorussian Patriarchate of St Andrew the First-Called Apostle

The Ecclesia Apostolica Divinorum Mysteriorum


The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

The Anglican Association of Colleges and Schools

The Order of the Crown of Thorns is listed in a reference work by the Consiglio Araldico Italiano

The Order of the Crown of Thorns is listed in the reference work “Repertorio Iconografico degli Ordini Cavellereschi” by Don Francesco Alfredo Maria prof. Mariano duca d’Otranto, published by the Consiglio Araldico Italiano – Istituto Marchese Vittorio Spreti in 2003. This institution was founded in Turin in 1948.

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Death of Count Carl Lemke

Count Lemke wearing the tie of San Luigi

The Abbey-Principality extends its sincere condolences upon the death of Count Carl Lemke of Texas, USA. Count Lemke was born at Little Rock, Arkansas, on 24 October 1951. He was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Thorns and the Order of the Lion and the Black Cross, and further held office in the Royal Byelorussian Orders. In 2014, the Prince-Abbot of San Luigi conferred on him the hereditary title of Count and granted him arms. He was also a Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Letters (London) and received the Grand Prix Humanitaire de France et des Colonies.

Count Lemke was an exceptionally skilled craftsman and established Unique Regalia, a manufacturer of chivalric insignia. He was appointed by warrant as official insignia maker to San Luigi and Royal Belarus and many members of our Orders can testify to the high quality of his work. His son Joseph, who is also a member of the San Luigi Orders and now succeeds to his father’s title of Count, assisted him in this thriving business. Both father and son were veterans of the United States military.

The Grand Collar of San Luigi, made by Count Lemke.

Count Lemke was a much valued correspondent and friend of the Prince-Abbot and his humane outlook was evident when speaking of his family and that of the Prince-Abbot. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse and the Institute of Arts and Letters (London) enter into partnerships with the Imperial and Royal House of Leopardi of Constantinople

The Abbey-Principality has enjoyed a long association with the Imperial House of Tommassini-Paterno Leopardi of Constantinople, which is currently based in exile in Milan, Italy. Several institutions of the Imperial House have entered into a mutual full agreement of friendship, recognition, twinning, accreditation and partnership with the University’s dependent institutions The International College of Arms of the Noblesse and The Institute of Arts and Letters (London).

Nobile Accademia Heracliana

International College of Arms of the Noblesse

Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

Nobile Accademia Giustinianae

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

Accademia Costantiniana Leopardiana

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

The Serenissima Accademia Foscari Widmann Rezzonico

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

Archivio Storico (Historical File)

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

Partnerships with the Global Health Service, Sofia, Bulgaria

The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi is pleased to announce new partnerships with the Global Health Service. The Global Health Service is established as a nonprofit humanitarian provider in Sofia, Bulgaria, under the presidency of Professor Pasquale Sorrentino.

1. The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi

2. The Apostolic Episcopal Church

3. The Byelorussian Patriarchate of St Andrew the First-Called Apostle

4. The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

5. The Regency of Lomar

Partnerships with the Università Popolare e della Terza Età “Evy Delia Tommassini”, Milan, Italy

The Università Popolare e della Terza Età “Evy Delia Tommassini” is a private university after the model of the Italian “universities of the people”, and an institution of the Imperial House of Tommassini-Paterno of Constantinople, which is currently based in exile in Milan, Italy. The University has entered into a mutual full agreement of friendship, recognition, twinning, accreditation and partnership with the University.

1. The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi

2. The Apostolic Episcopal Church

3. The Byelorussian Patriarchate of St Andrew the First-Called Apostle

3. The Apostolate of the Holy Wisdom and its constituent bodies

4. The Ecclesia Apostolica Divinorum Mysteriorum

5. The Order of Corporate Reunion

6. The Order of the Sacred Cup

Appointment of new bishop

The Most Revd. Michael Cuozzo, OCR, OFE, DD, STD, PhD, MA, has been appointed as Provincial of the West, USA, and Titular Archbishop of Epiphania in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, and as a Deputy to the Primate, and further in the Catholicate of the West as Patriarch of Malaga and Exarch for the USA. Archbishop Michael will be designated as Mar Francis.

He is Primate and Presiding Archbishop of the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist (O.F.E.), a chartered religious order of the AEC incorporated in California that affirms its identity and unity as a Roman Catholic autocephalous body and takes particular inspiration from the life and example of Pope Francis.