News from the Grand Priory of England
DIARY DATES 2023-2027
To enable members of the Order to plan ahead efficiently, the Grand Priory of England has
fixed dates for investitureswhich are the Saturday closest to 24th May in each year, being
the anniversary of Hugues de Payen, our first Grand Master, and the Saturday immediately
after 13th October in each year, which is Templar Remembrance Day commemorating the
day when hundreds of Knights Templars across France were simultaneously arrested on
the orders of King Philip of France, which saw the Order disbanded for over 400-years.
Saturday 18th October 2025
AUTUMN INVESTITURE
Venue to be announced
Saturday 17th October 2026
AUTUMN INVESTITURE
Venue to be announced
Saturday 24th May 2025
SPRING INVESTITURE
Selby Abbey, Yorkshire
Saturday 23rd May 2026
SPRING INVESTITURE
Venue to be announced
Saturday 22nd May 2027
SPRING INVESTITURE
Venue to be announced
Saturday 16th October 2027
AUTUMN INVESTITURE
Venue to be announced
New Grand Master
At the World Convent General of Grand Priors
held in Paris on Friday 27th October 2023,
a new Grand Master of the Order was elected.
We welcome
HSE Jacques Charles Dubos, EMC
formerly the Grand Prior General of Switzerland
as our new Grand Master and we pray that his
leadership may be guided with God’s wisdom
and love.
© OSMTH England 2024
OSMTH and the Grand Priory of England is a chivalric non-denominational Christian
organisation whose objects are the Christian values of Faith, Hope, and Charity.
We are not a political organisation, are not associated with any political
organisation and have no political aims or ambitions.
We emphatically denounce all those who seek to besmirch the honourable
reputation of the Knights Templar for any political, subversive or unlawful activity.