Royal Office

The High Protectorate

HIGH PROTECTOR OF THE ORDER OF THE CROWN OF THORNS

The late H.M. King Peter II of Yugoslavia

HIGH PROTECTOR OF THE ORDER OF THE LION AND THE BLACK CROSS

H.I.M. Emperor Emeritus Akihito of Japan

HIGH PROTECTOR OF THE ORDER OF ANTIOCH

The late H.I.R.H. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Royal Patron and Protector

ROYAL PATRON AND PROTECTOR OF THE ORDERS OF THE LION AND THE BLACK CROSS AND OF THE CROWN OF THORNS

H.M. Rukirabasaija Agutamba Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I
49th Omukama of the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara
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The Grand Magistry

PRINCE AND GRAND MASTER

H.S.H. the Most Revd. Edmond III*
8th Prince-Abbot of San Luigi, 6th Mukungu of the Chieftainship of the Ancient Abbey-Principality of San Luigi (Fizzan) in the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara, Head of the Royal House Polanie-Patrikios, 2nd Prince of Miensk and Ecclesiast of all Byelorussia, and Grand Master of the San Luigi Orders and the Royal Byelorussian Orders
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Family Members of the Royal House Polanie-Patrikios

The wife, children and descendants of the Prince and Grand Master

The widow, children and descendants of the late H.S.H. Prince Kermit of Miensk

H.I.H. il Principe Porfirogenito Ezra Annibale Theo Paterniano Basilio Eraclio Giustiniano, Head of the Imperial House of Leopardi of Constantinople

Prof. Luca Scotto di Tella de’ Douglas di Castel di Ripa (Grand Justiciar)

H.S.H. Prince Orazio Scuro, hereditary Prince of Arbër and Count and Baron of Albania etc.

H.S.H. Prince Orazio Mezzetti, Head of the Sovereign Royal Granducal House of Dalmatia (Val d’Ors)

Vice-Chancellor and Grand Prior of Europe

H.E. Dr Norbert Wójtowicz*
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Prior of France

H.E. the Most Revd. Raphaël-Magnoald Steck, OA

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara

H.E. Dr. Peter Gummersbach, Duke of Ghãt

Counsellors of State

H.S.H. Prince don Aldo Colleoni, Prince of Babruysk
H.E. Admiral Carl Lemke, Duke of Astravets

Chaplain

H.E. the Rt. Revd. Christian Kliver

(*Member of the Supreme Council)

Royal House

Since 2015, the Prince-Abbot of San Luigi has also been Head of the Royal House Polanie-Patrikios, which traces its dynastic heritage to the Byzantine Roman Emperor Leo V Patrikios the Armenian (reigned 813-20) and the first rulers of Poland, the Princes of Gniezno and Dukes of the Polans (Polanie). In addition, the Head of the Royal House Polanie-Patrikios, in his offices of Prince of Miensk and Ecclesiast of the Byelorussian Patriarchate of St Andrew the First-Called Apostle, is responsible for the Byelorussian monarchist movement in exile. The Royal House Polanie-Patrikios also maintains several House Orders.

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The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse was founded in 1925 and was integrated as a constituent part of the Catholicate of the West in 1950. It has responsibility for heraldic matters within the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi, Royal Belarus, and in a wider international context. In all cases its activities are strictly confined to those which are not the prerogative of national heraldic authorities.

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Fizzan King of Arms

H.E. Dr Norbert Wójtowicz

Representation in Asia

Minister Plenipotentiary

H.E. Colonel Dr. Georg Reiff