This article is about the Royal Arch as practiced as a stand-alone degree. For the similar body found in the York Rite, see Royal Arch Masonry.
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The Royal Arch is a degree of Freemasonry. The Royal Arch is present in all main masonic systems, though in some it is worked as part of Craft ('mainstream') Freemasonry, and in others in an appendant ('additional') order. Royal Arch Masons meet as a Chapter; in the Supreme Order of the Royal Arch as practised in the British Isles, much of Europe and the Commonwealth, Chapters confer the single degree of Royal Arch Mason.
exception of Canada), the teachings of RoyalArch Masonry are contained in the "Supreme Order of the HolyRoyalArch" – a stand-alone degree of Freemasonry...
conferred in a HolyRoyalArch Chapter as a prerequisite for exaltation to the HolyRoyalArch. If a candidate for joining a Scottish RoyalArch Chapter has...
conferred by the Order of Royal and Select Masters, along with three other degrees. The RoyalArch Mason (or HolyRoyalArch) degree is said by many to...
Freemasonry: The HolyRoyalArch, an appendant Masonic degree conferred in Great Britain, and much of Europe and the Commonwealth RoyalArch Masonry, the...
universal, is the RoyalArch Chapter (the HolyRoyalArch in England). Although some masonic writers have attempted to see RoyalArch symbolism in material...
Australia, and is conferred as part of the process of Exaltation to the HolyRoyalArch Degree. The Degree may also be conferred upon candidates in a Lodge...
of Master Mason, Mark Master Mason, and the HolyRoyalArch. They are the degrees of: Select Master Royal Master Most Excellent Master Super-Excellent...
are now cordial. In 1913 a small group who wished to introduce the HolyRoyalArch degree in an unorthodox manner were expelled from the Order and founded...
ceremonial meeting (noun), or assembly. A meeting of companions of a HolyRoyalArch chapter. York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, and Man. In medieval times...
Freemasonry Entered Apprentice Fellowcraft Master Mason HolyRoyalArch IIº − Supreme Order of the HolyRoyalArch Camp of Baldwyn IIIº − Knights of the Nine Elected...
Non-Denominational Allied Masonic Degrees Grand College of Rites HolyRoyalArch (Anglo-European) RoyalArch Masonry (American) Order of Athelstan Order of Knight...
Instructions, in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master, and the HolyRoyalArch. New York: Clark & Maynard, 1870. One or more of the preceding sentences...
addition the Allied Degrees of Mark, Royal Ark Mariner, Excellent Master, HolyRoyalArch of Jerusalem, Knights Templar, Royal Order of Scotland and Red Cross...
Powell notes how Desaguliers also introduced the "lost word" aspect of the RoyalArch degree which he likely read in a book he owned titled "The Temple of Solomon...
Masonic Masonic bodies York Rite Order of Mark Master Masons HolyRoyalArchRoyalArch Masonry Cryptic Masonry Knights Templar Red Cross of Constantine...
three degrees of Craft Masonry and the later Masonic orders of the HolyRoyalArch and Mark Master Masons. The degrees are: 1st - Indentured Apprentice...
do so, the most common being the requirement of membership of the HolyRoyalArch. Further qualifications for membership vary by provincial jurisdiction...
Masonic Masonic bodies York Rite Order of Mark Master Masons HolyRoyalArchRoyalArch Masonry Cryptic Masonry Knights Templar Red Cross of Constantine...
Macoy, and handed the Order over to him while Morris was traveling in the Holy Land. Macoy organized the current system of Chapters, and modified Dr. Morris'...
holiday Exaltation, in Freemasonry, the initiation ritual into the HolyRoyalArch degree Exaltation (sculpture) LG Exalt, a flip phone Exaltación (disambiguation)...
Independent United Order of Mechanics, which retains the symbol unchanged. The Royal Black Institution, which uses the symbol unchanged. Carpenters' Company...
Antiquity No 2, Fortitude and Old Cumberland Lodge No 12 (originally No 3) and Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge No IV. These are known as "time immemorial...
smaller number Freemasons in Scotland subsequently apply to join the HolyRoyalArch and take their Mark degree in that body. Under the Scottish Masonic...