King Offa Commandery held its first-ever Harvest Festival Thanksgiving Service at St Katherine’s Church, Teversal Village, Nottinghamshire. We sang traditional harvest hymns including ‘We plough the fields and scatter’, ‘Come, ye thankful people come’ and ‘All things bright and beautiful’. Those attending generously brought with them tins and packets...
King Offa Commandery’s Annual Service of Celebration & Renewal of Knightly Vows was held at Barnby Gate Methodist Church, Newark-on-Trent on Saturday 5th July 2025.
The Commandery was honoured to receive the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Mr Edward Attenborough DL, along with Dame Mary Kenyon BEM DLJ OMLJ, the Grand Baillie of Scotland, accompanied by Chevalier Colin...
Members of the Commandery of Cumbria, together with members and guests from the Commanderies of John of Gaunt, King Offa, Mersey and the Grand Bailiwick of Scotland, joined together for the Commandery church service on 18 May.
The Service was held in St Patrick's Church, Preston Patrick and led by the Commandery Senior Chaplain, the Reverend Canon Andrew Horsfall SChLJ, assisted by the Chaplain-General of the Grand Bailiwick of Scotland, the Reverend Colin McAulay SChLJ CMLJ.
The Spring National Investiture for 2025 took place in Shrewsbury and was attended by about 80 members and guests, hosted by the Commandery of The Marches. All Commanderies were represented, apart from Avalon who sent apologies.
The evening before, 33 people had signed up to a wine-tasting and tour of the 16th century cellars and premises of Tanners Wines...
moreWe regret to share news of the death of our much-loved and greatly respected Grand Master Emeritus, His Excellency Francisco de Paula Enrique de Borbon y Escasany, 5th Duke of Seville, Grandee of Spain and late 48th Grand Master of the Order of Saint Lazarus. He played a significant role in reuniting the Malta and Paris Obediences. He will always be remembered for his long-standing commitment to the Order of Saint Lazarus. Please pray for the repose of his soul and for those he held dear.
A tribute from his son, our 50th Grand Master, Don Francisco de Borbon Graf von Hardenberg GCLJ...
moreMayor of the Borough of Erewash, Cllr Richard Butler - Chairman of...
Sunday 26th January 2025 is World Leprosy Day. For members of our Order, committed to the care and treatment of those suffering from the debilitating disease of leprosy, this is a day of great significance when we can make a very real contribution towards the alleviation of leprosy. It is to that end The St Lazarus Charitable Trust (SLCT) has agreed that the Grand Priory’s World Leprosy Day Project for 2025 (WLD25) will be to support The Leprosy Mission of England & Wales (LMEW) with a project in Odisha in eastern India.
LMEW have located a leper colony in Odisha with the most...
moreThe King Offa Commandery Carol Service was a great success and a very happy occasion despite very windy conditions brought about by Storm Darragh. It was held at the ancient church of St Mary Magdalene in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
The Commandery was honoured to have Colonel Nicholas Hile, a Deputy Lieutenant in Nottinghamshire, with us. He kindly presented a...
Last Saturday (16th November) the Grand Priory of England and Wales was represented by the Rev’d John Eldridge SChLJ, Bishop Lindsay Urwin ECLJ, the Hospitaller Mr Daniel Morris KLJ and the Bailiff Dr David Woolf KCLJ, at the licensing of the Rev’d Ben Eadon as the 12th Priest Administrator of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham by the Rt Rev’d Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich.
The Registrar of the College of Guardians, the Rev’d Prebendary Graeme Rowlands, installed the Administrator in his stall in the Shrine. His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, The Lady Dannatt, and...
moreWe were deeply saddened to learn of the death of the Grand Prior of England & Wales, The Most. Hon. Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, on 1 October 2024.
Lord Lothian had served as Grand Prior of England & Wales for eleven years, since October 2013, and will be greatly missed.
HE the Chevalier Gareth Vaughan GCLJ, Secretary-General,...
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