South Wales & Monmouthshire District Rose Croix
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Ancient and Accepted Rite
(Rose Croix)
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District of South Wales and Monmouthshire
Introduction
Freemasonry is a secular fraternal association that has evolved worldwide, as the Craft degrees have evolved, so too have independent Orders of Freemasonry and rituals peculiar to them. Prominent among them is the Ancient and Accepted Rite.
The Order has a very close relationship with the Craft, although technically neither formally recognises the other. The Grand Master, the Pro Grand Master and the Deputy Grand Master are all members of the 33° and indeed the Grand Master, HRH the Duke of Kent, is the Grand Patron of the Order.
In England and Wales the Ancient and Accepted Rite is a purely Christian Order. All candidates for membership must profess the Trinitarian Christian faith and have been Master Masons for at least one year in United Grand Lodge of England, or have joined a Lodge under UGLE from a recognised Grand Lodge.
There are 42 other Supreme Councils throughout the world with whom our Supreme Council is in amity. Of those, there are only 3 others that have retained Christianity as an essential element; the remainder have dropped that requirement but still impose the Craft requirement for a belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the absence in other jurisdictions of the requirement for a Christian belief, members within our Supreme Council may visit Chapters in those countries, and vice versa, thus promoting masonic harmony across the Order, which is the largest international masonic community after the Craft.
There is no requirement that a candidate must first have been exalted into a Royal Arch Chapter.
The Order has a very close relationship with the Craft, although technically neither formally recognises the other. The Grand Master, the Pro Grand Master and the Deputy Grand Master are all members of the 33° and indeed the Grand Master, HRH the Duke of Kent, is the Grand Patron of the Order.
In England and Wales the Ancient and Accepted Rite is a purely Christian Order. All candidates for membership must profess the Trinitarian Christian faith and have been Master Masons for at least one year in United Grand Lodge of England, or have joined a Lodge under UGLE from a recognised Grand Lodge.
There are 42 other Supreme Councils throughout the world with whom our Supreme Council is in amity. Of those, there are only 3 others that have retained Christianity as an essential element; the remainder have dropped that requirement but still impose the Craft requirement for a belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the absence in other jurisdictions of the requirement for a Christian belief, members within our Supreme Council may visit Chapters in those countries, and vice versa, thus promoting masonic harmony across the Order, which is the largest international masonic community after the Craft.
There is no requirement that a candidate must first have been exalted into a Royal Arch Chapter.
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