The Abbey-Principality wishes all visitors to our website a very happy and blessed New Year.
In celebration we publish this photograph of the young Prince-Abbot Edmond II in relaxed mood.
Royal Bulletin – Royal Decisions of H.M. the Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara
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:
“The Bishop who Ran in the 1932 Olympics”
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.
Prince-Abbot receives house order
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.
Presentation ceremony at Kaufbeuren
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.
Prince-Abbot receives appointment in the Order of St John
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.
Prince-Abbot is appointed to office in the Order of St. Lazarus
The Prince-Abbot has been appointed as a Senior Chaplain in the rank of Knight Commander of Justice in the Grand Priory of Carpathia of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem. The website of the Grand Priory gives details of its history, organization and charitable activities for the relief of leprosy.
Contact between the Order of St Lazarus and the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi has a long history. A former Grand Master of the Order of St Lazarus, Comte Charles Otzenberger-Detaille, was among the members of the Order of the Crown of Thorns in the years before the Second World War.
The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi 
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