The Grande Oriente do Brasil is a

masonic Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...

body in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It was founded in 1822. It has 1700 lodges with around 100,000 members. It is within the tradition of Anglo-American Freemasonry.

Grand Masters

* 1° (1822-1822):

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (; 13 June 17636 April 1838) was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire. He was one of the most important mentors ...

* 2° (1822-1822): Emperor Pedro I * 3° (1831-1837):

* 4° (1837-1850): Antônio Francisco de Paula de Holanda Cavalcanti de Albuquerque * 5° (1850-1863):

Miguel Calmon du Pin e Almeida --> Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to: Places *Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands * São Miguel (disamb ...

** 6° (1850-1863): Luís Alves de Lima e Silva (Honorary) * 7° (1863-1864): Bento da Silva Lisboa * 8° (1864-1871): Joaquim Marcelino de Brito * 9° (1871-1880): José Maria da Silva Paranhos * 10° (1880-1885): Francisco José Cardoso Júnior * 11°(1885-1889): Luís Antônio Vieira da Silva * 12° (1889-1890):

João Batista Gonçalves Campos João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below. Kings * ...

* 13° (1890-1892):

Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (; 5 August 1827 – 23 August 1892) was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas in a military family, followed a military career, and became a n ...

* 14° (1892-1901): Antônio Joaquim de Macedo Soares * 15° (1901-1904): Quintino Antônio Ferreira de Sousa Bocaiuva * 16° (1904-1916): Lauro Nina Sodré e Silva ** 17° (1905-1905): Francisco Glicério de Cerqueira Leite (Interim) * 18° (1917-1919):

Nilo Procópio Peçanha Nilo may refer to: * Nilo (name) * Nilo, Cundinamarca, a town in Colombia See also * Nilo-Saharan languages * Nilo Rukundpur, a village in Patepur Tehsil, Vaishali, Bihar, India * Nilo Syrtis Nilo Syrtis (or Nilosyrtis) is a region just north ...

* 19° (1922-1925): Mario Marinho de Carvalho Behring * 20° (1925-1926): Vicente Saraiva de Carvalho Neiva * 21° (1926-1927): João Severiano da Fonseca Hermes * 22° (1927-1933): Octávio Kelly * 23° (1933-1940): José Maria Moreira Guimarães * 24° (1940-1952): Joaquim Rodrigues Neves * 25° (1953-1954):

Benjamin de Almeida Sodré Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

* 26° (1954-1963): Cyro Werneck de Sousa e Silva * XX (1964-1968): Álvaro Palmeira * 27° (1968-1973): Moacyr Arbex Dinamarco * 28° (1973-1978): Osmane Vieira de Resende * 29° (1978-1983): Osires Teixeira * 30° (1983-1987): Jair Assis Ribeiro * 31° (1987-1988): Enoc Almeida Vieira * 32° (1988-1993): Jair Assis Ribeiro * 33° (1993-2001): Francisco Murilo Pinto * 34° (2001-2008): Laelson Rodrigues * 35° (2008-2018): Marcos José da Silva ** 36° (2018-2019): Ricardo Maciel Monteiro de Carvalho (Interim) * 37° (2019-present): Múcio Bonifácio Guimarães

References

Grand Lodges Freemasonry in Brazil 1822 establishments in Brazil Organisations based in Brasília {{Brazil-org-stub