Fra’ John Dunlap has been elected Prince and 81st Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He is the first Professed Knight from the Americas to be elected as head of the Order of Malta.
The Council Complete of State, the elective body, met in Rome in the Magistral Villa, one of the two institutional seats of the Order of Malta, and elected him by an absolute majority of votes, on the basis of a binding list of three candidates indicated yesterday by the Chapter of Professed. There were 99 voters from 18 different countries.
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