Membership Qualifications - Knight Templar Priests

The Full Title of this Order is The Order of Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests. OR Order of Holy Wisdom. The Grand College of Great Britain and it's Tabernacles Overseas is the Governing Body for the Order.

The Order is Divided into 47 Districts Worldwide. Each District is overseen by a District SuperIntendent and could have any number of Tabernacles within it. The Largest Districts have 10 or more Tabernacles a total of 235 Tabernacles (2008) 

To be considered as a member of this deeply significant Order you must be:-

(1) A Past Master of a Lodge of Freemasons

(2) A Royal Arch Mason and

(3) A Member of the Order of the Temple (Preceptory).

(4) Fundamentally a prospective member must also profess the Christian Religion.

The Ceremony we work is Biblical from start to finish.

The Order - in it's Modern Form did not set out to be deliberately exclusive, however, the Appendant Degrees - 31 in number - each have a ceremonial working attached and to have a chance of understanding and appreciating these - it was determined by our Founders that a Mason needed to be of a certain standing and qualification within the Masonic Craft.