The Grand Orient of the Netherlands or Grand East of the Netherlands (

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

: ''Orde van Vrijmetselaren onder het Grootoosten der Nederlanden'') is a

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Grand Lodge A Grand Lodge (or Grand Orient or other similar title) is the overarching governing body of a fraternal or other similarly organized group in a given area, usually a city, state, or country. 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

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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, one in

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, one in

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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.Orde van Vrijmetselaren onder het Grootoosten der Nederlanden
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

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. Active

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existed throughout the Dutch East Indies (now:

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). In 1922 a Dutch Provincial Grand Lodge, under the Grand Orient of the Netherlands, at Weltevreden (

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) controlled twenty Lodges in the colony: fourteen in

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, three in Sumatra and others in Makassar and

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.Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
/ref> 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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