The Grand Orient of the Netherlands or Grand East of the Netherlands (Dutch: Orde van Vrijmetselaren onder het Grootoosten der Nederlanden) is a Masonic Grand Lodge in the Netherlands. It falls within the mainstream Anglo-American tradition of Freemasonry, being recognized by The United Grand Lodge of EnglandForeign Grand Lodges Recognised by The United Grand Lodge of England - Europe Accessed 10 August 2008 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 South Africa, one in Thailand, 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.The Builder magazine, 1924
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.Africa, page 37, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Part 1 By Albert G. Mackey One of the Lodges that was subservient to the Grand Lodge hosted the early legislative assemblies of the Cape Colony.The Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, Andrew Cusack
Active freemasonry existed throughout the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). In 1922 a Dutch Provincial Grand Lodge, under the Grand Orient of the Netherlands, at Weltevreden (Batavia) controlled twenty Lodges in the colony: fourteen in Java, three in Sumatra and others in Makassar and Salatiga.Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
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 1882 - 1884 : Alexander, Prince of Orange 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 - 2022 : G. van Eijk 2022 - present : L.A. Jonkers
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