The Grand Orient of the Netherlands or Grand East of the Netherlands (
Dutch
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: ''Orde van Vrijmetselaren onder het Grootoosten der Nederlanden'') is a
Masonic
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Grand Lodge
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In Freemasonry
A Grand Lodge or Grand Orient is the us ...
in the Netherlands. It falls within the mainstream Anglo-American tradition of Freemasonry, being recognized by The
United Grand Lodge of England
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and the 51 Grand Lodges in the United States. In addition to its jurisdiction over nine districts in the Netherlands, it also administers three Lodges in Suriname through the Provincial Grand Lodge of Suriname,
three lodges in
Curaçao
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, one in
South Africa
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, one in
Thailand
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, and through the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Caribbean, three lodges in Aruba and one in St. Maarten.
In the Netherlands it claims to have 145 lodges with 5,792 members.
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English language version
It also runs the Prince Frederick Museum and has an online catalogue available for its library.
It was founded in either 1756
or 1757.
Historic Grand Lodges under the Grand Orient
The Grand Orient of the Netherlands used to have provincial Grand Lodges under its jurisdiction, including the Grand Lodge of South Africa and the Grand Lodge of the Transvaal. One of the Lodges that was subservient to the Grand Lodge hosted the early legislative assemblies of the
Cape Colony
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.
Active
freemasonry
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existed throughout the
Dutch East Indies
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(now:
Indonesia
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). In 1922 a Dutch Provincial Grand Lodge, under the Grand Orient of the Netherlands, at Weltevreden (
Batavia
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) controlled twenty Lodges in the colony: fourteen in
Java
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, three in
Sumatra
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and others in
Makassar
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and
Salatiga
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.
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Administers the Provincial Grand Lodge of Zimbabwe which has 5 lodges under its jurisdiction, 3 in Harare and one each in Marondera and Bulawayo. The Grand Lodge was formed in 1963 and the first lodge, Zambesia in Bulawayo in 1896.
Grand Masters
* 1735 - 1748 : Johan Cornelis Radermacher
* 1749 - 1752 : Kolonel Joost Gerrit van Wassenaer (1716-1753)
** 1752 - 1756 : Louis Dagran (interim)
* 1756 - 1758 : Albrecht Nicolaas van Aerssen Beijeren
* 1758 - 1759 : Carel van Bentinck
* 1759 - 1798 : Carel van Boetzelaer
* 1798 - 1804 : Isaak van Teylingen
* 1804 - 1810 : Cornelis Gerrit Bijleveld
* 1810 - 1812 : Isaac Bousquet
* 1812 - 1816 : Willem Philip Barnaart
* 1816 - 1816 : Tussenbestuur van negen
* 1816 - 1881 : Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (full names: Willem Frederik Karel; 28 February 1797, in Berlin – 8 September 1881, in Wassenaar), was the second son of William I of the Netherlands and his wife, Wilhelmine of Pru ...
* 1882 - 1884 : Alexander, Prince of Orange
Alexander, Prince of Orange (Willem ''Alexander'' Karel Hendrik Frederik; 25 August 1851 – 21 June 1884), was heir apparent to his father King William III of the Netherlands from 11 June 1879 until his death.
For a span of 116 years, from the ...
* 1885 - 1892 : Pieter Johannes Gesinus van Diggelen
* 1892 - 1906 : Gerrit Van Visser
* 1906 - 1917 : Simon Marius Hugo van Gijn
* 1917 - 1923 : Meinhard Steven Lingbeek
* 1923 - 1927 : Willem Sonneveld
* 1926 - 1929 : Johannes Hendrik Carpentier-Alting
* 1929 - 1941 : Hermannus van Tongeren
* 1945 - 1952 : L.J.J. Caron
* 1952 - 1961 : C.M.R. Davidson
* 1961 - 1962 : M. ten Cate
* 1962 - 1974 : J. Kok
* 1974 - 1979 : G. van Wezel
* 1979 - 1982 : Th. Boesman
* 1982 - 1986 : W. Sepp
* 1986 - 1990 : J.M. Barents
* 1990 - 1997 : R. Schultink
* 1997 - 2000 : B. Sarphati
* 2000 - 2003 : P.G. Roodhuyzen
* 2003 - 2010 : J.D. van Rossum
* 2010 - 2016 : W.S. Meijer
* 2016 - present : G. van Eijk
References
External links
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Freemasonry in the Netherlands