In 1988, to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus', Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow reestablished the Order of Saint Andrew the First Called. In observance of the filial relationship to Moscow, His Beatitute +Symeon Ioannovskij, the Metropolitan and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in America / 10th
In 1988, to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus', Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow reestablished the Order of Saint Andrew the First Called. In observance of the filial relationship to Moscow, His Beatitute +Symeon Ioannovskij, the Metropolitan and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in America / 10th Patriarch of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of North America, became the grand master of the Order in the Americas.
Before his passing in 2016, His Beatitude named Douglas Buchanan Bailey as his successor and sovereign grand master of the Order and anointed him as His Royal Highness, The Grand Duke of Saint Cyriacus, as well as naming him the successor and sovereign grand master of the Order of the Green Cross and Knights of the True Cross.
The Order of Saint Andrew The First Called in the Americas has one grade.
The Order has three grades.
The Order has three grades.
The dynastic and chivalric orders of the House of Bailey are derived from ecclesiastical authority originally vested in His Beatitude +Symeon Ioannovskij (Steven Mark Holdridge, 1953–2016), Metropolitan and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in America / Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of North America (THEOCACNA). This autocephalous Orthodox jurisdiction, founded with the blessing of Patriarch Saint Tikhon of Moscow and chartered in 1927 in the United States, operated independently within the Eastern Orthodox tradition. THEOCACNA maintained apostolic succession and the traditional Orthodox liturgy, thereby providing an ecclesiastical framework for the establishment and transmission of honorific orders. These orders, now under the patronage of the House of Bailey, are further supported by recognition from HM Omukama Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I of Bunyoro-Kitara, a restored traditional monarchy constitutionally protected within the Republic of Uganda.
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