Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Puissances maçonniques Signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg explained
The Liaison and Information Centre of Signatory Masonic Powers of the Strasbourg Appeal (French: Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Puissances maçonniques Signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg) or CLIPSAS is an international group of Masonic Grand Orients and Grand Lodges that adhere to Continental Freemasonry and signed the Strasbourg Appeal.[1] Members include the Grand Orient de France, the Grand Orient of Belgium and the Grand Lodge of Italy, of which the first two left the group between 2000 and 2010.[2] [3]
Since 2011 it has had Special Consultative Status at the UNESCO.[4]
Members
Source: CLIPSAS
- Grand Orient de France, founder 1961, absent between 1996 and 2010, reintegrated in 2010
- Grand Orient of Belgium, founder 1961, absent between 1996 and 2008, reintegrated in 2008
- Grand Lodge of Italy, founder 1961
- Grand Orient of Switzerland, founder 1961
- Grand Orient of Austria, founder 1961
- Grand Orient of Luxembourg, founder 1961
- Serenísima Gran Logia de Lengua Española, founder 1961
- Grand Lodge of Denmark of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, 1970
- Mixed Grand Lodge of Puerto Rico, 1976
- George Washington Union, 1979
- Grand Lodge of the Republic of Venezuela, 1980
- Grand Rite malgache, 1981
- Omega Grand Lodge of the State of New York, 1982
- United Grand Orient and Lodge of Cameroon, 1982
- Symbolic Grand Lodge of Spain, 1983
- French Federation of "Droit Humain", 1983 (absent between 1996 and 2011), reintegrated in 2012
- Mixed Universal Grand Lodge, 1984, rejoined in May 2013
- Mixed Grand Lodge of France, 1984, rejoined in May 2013
- Grand Orient of the Congo, 1984
- Female Grand Lodge of Belgium, 1984
- Nederlandse Grootloge der Gemengde Vrijmetsalerij, 1985
- Grande Oriente Lusitano, 1985
- Grande Loge haïtienne de St. Jean des Orients d'Outre-Mer, 1985
- Grande Loge d'Haïti de 1961, 1987
- HUMANITAS - Freimaurergrossloge für Frauen und Männer in Deutschland, 1987
- Gran Oriente Latino Americano, 1987
- Grand Lodge of the Republic of Benin, 1988
- Großloge Humanitas Austria, 1989
- Grands Orient et Loge associés du Congo, 1989
- Liberal Grand Lodge of Turkey, 1989
- Mixed Grand Lodge of Chile, 1991
- French Grand Lodge of Memphis-Misraïm, 1991
- Female Grande Lodge of Memphis-Misraïm, 1992
- Helvetic Symbolic Grand Lodge, 1992
- Grande Eburnie, 1992
- Female Grand Lodge of Chile, 1994
- Female Grand Lodge of Italy, 1995
- Grande Loja Unida do Paraná, 1995
- Serenissime Grand Orient de Grece, 1996 https://www.sgog.gr/home
- Grande Loge des Caraïbes, 1997
- Grand Orient of Mexico, 1997
- National Grand Lodge of Canada, 1997
- Grande Oriente Nacional Gloria do Occidente do Brasil, 1998
- Gran Logia del Norte de Colombia, 2000
- Grande Loja Maçonica Mixta do Brasil, 2001
- International Masonic Order of Delphi, 2001
- Central Grand Lodge of Lebanon, 2002
- Mixed Grand Orient of Greece, 2002
- Grande Loja Unida de Pernambuco, 2002
- Mixed Grand Lodge of Memphis-Misraïm, 2003
- Central Grand Lodge of Colombia, 2003
- Grande Loge des Cèdres, 2003
- Symbolic Masculine Grand Lodge of Africa, 2003
- Grand Rite Malagasy Féminin, 2003
- Grande Oriente Masónico Chileno, 2004
- Gran Logia Femenina de Argentina, 2004
- Grande Loja Feminina da Maçonaria Brasileira, 2005
- Grande Loja Arquitetos de Aquário, 2005
- Grand Lodge Bet-El, 2005
- Female Grand Lodge of Romania, 2006
- Benjamin Herrera, 2006
- Grande Loge indépendante et souveraine des Rites unis, 2008
- Gran Oriente de la Francmasonaria Mixta Universal, 2008
- Grand Lodge of Morocco, 2008
- Constitutional Grand Lodge of Peru, 2009
- Federal Grand Orient of the Republic of Argentina, 2009
- Grand Orient of El Salvador, 2009
- Gran Logia Hiram Habif, 2009
- Grand Orient of Romania, 2009
- National United Grand Lodge of Romania, 2009
- Federación Colombiana de Logias Masónicas, 2010
- Grande Loja Feminina do Brasil, 2010
- Gran Orient de Catalunya, 2011
- Lithos - Confédération de loges, 2011
- Liberal Grand Lodge of Austria, 2011
- United Grand Lodge of Lebanon, 2011
- Grand Lodge of Belgium, 2011
- Gran Logia Oriental del Perú, 2011
- Sovereign Grand Lodge of Venezuela, 2011
- Grande Oriente Ibérico, 2012
- Grande Loge mixte souveraine, 2014
- Ordre initiatique et traditionnel de l'art royal, 2014
- Grande Loge Symbolique travaillant au Rite Écossais Primitif, 2014
- Grand Lodge ANI of Canada, 2016
- Grand Orient de Canaan, 2017
- Albanian Grand Lodge/Grande Loge Albanaise – ILLYRIA (since 2018)
- Grand Orient of Slovenia (since 2016)
- Ordine Massonico Tradizionale Italiano (since 2022)
See also
Notes and References
- http://www.clipsas.com/en/apelo-de-estrasburgo/ CLIPSAS, The Strasbourg Appeal
- Pope, Tony; At a perpetual distance: Liberal and Adogmatic Grand Lodges (Presented to Waikato Lodge of Research No 445 at Rotorua, New Zealand, on 9 November 2004, as the annual Verrall Lecture, and subsequently published in the Transactions of the Lodge, vol 14 #1, March 2005) - as reproduced at Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140714111110/http://www.clipsas.com/en/membros-do-clipsas/ CLIPSAS membership list
- https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/ecosoc6458.doc.htm Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Recommends Special Consultative Status for Eight Civil Society Groups, Postpones Consideration of 19 Applications