Order of Saint John (disambiguation)
Order of Saint John may refer to:
Catholic chivalric orders
- Sovereign Military Order of Malta, continuing the Catholic tradition of the original medieval Order of Saint John, now based in Rome
- Knights Hospitaller, another name of the Order of Saint John, designating its medieval history
Protestant chivalric orders
- Alliance of the Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem, a federation of mutually recognised Orders of Saint John:
- Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg), now headquartered in Berlin, an inheritor (like its British counterpart) of the Protestant tradition from the Knights Hospitaller
- Order of Saint John (chartered 1888), whose Sovereign Head is the monarch of the Commonwealth realms; based in London, its responsibilities include overseeing St. John Ambulance and the St. John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem
- Order of Saint John in Sweden, founded in 1920 in Stockholm, Sweden
Eastern Orthodox chivalric orders
- Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller, the Russian Orthodox tradition from the Knights Hospitaller, springing from the Grand Mastership of Emperor Paul I of Russia
See also
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