Photo of Great Master Angelo de Mojana di Cologna

Fra' Angelo de Mojana di Cologna (13 August 1905, Milan, Italy – 18 January 1988,

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) was an Italian nobleman and Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1962 to 1988. De Mojana was received as a Knight of Honour and Devotion in the Order of Malta 7 December 1940. He took first vows as a

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28 March 1950 and made his solemn profession 1 April 1957. Throughout the 1950s De Mojana was the principal legal advisor to the Order of Malta in its negotiations with the Sacred Congregation for Religious. De Mojana was promoted to the rank of Commander of Justice 1 January 1960 and was given the Commandery Estense Reggiana. He was elected Grand Master 8 May 1962. De Mojana made two official visits to France. In November 1964 he was received by President

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. On 27 April 1972 he was received at the

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by President Georges Pompidou. He made an official visit to Malta in June 1968. He made an official visit to Gabon in 1972. De Mojana died of a heart attack at the Palazzo Malta 18 January 1988.

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Honours and awards

Foreign countries

* : Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour * : Grand Collar of the Order of Pope Pius IX * : Knight of the Order of Christ, 4 July 1987 (the last recipient of the order) * : Knight Grand Cross Decorated with the Grand Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 8 October 1962 * : Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ, 21 September 1967 * : Grand Collar of the

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, 2 September 1983 * : Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, 12 July 1965

Dynasties

* House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: Bailiff Grand Cross with Collar of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, 10 July 1962 * House of Habsburg-Lorraine: Knight of the Austrian

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, 30 November 1972 * House of Romanov: Knight of the Order of St. Andrew, 1963 *

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: Knight of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, 1974 *

: Knight Grand Cross of the

Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ( it, Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the wo ...

, 1974 *

: Knight Grand Cross of the

Order of the Crown of Italy The Order of the Crown of Italy ( it, Ordine della Corona d'Italia, italic=no or OCI) was founded as a national order in 1868 by King Vittorio Emanuele II, to commemorate the unification of Italy in 1861. It was awarded in five degrees for civi ...

, 1974

References

1905 births 1988 deaths Nobility from Milan Princes and Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Knights of Malta {{Italy-noble-stub