Scottish Knights Templar USA
Priory of St. Jude

World Wide Order of Templars

We are a world wide Order of Templars, recognized as the premiere Order of Knights Templar with roots grounded to the principles of St. Bernard of Clairavaux, the Vatican in 1118, then to Scotland in 1128. We are also a Non-Masonic Templar order, and an ecumenical Christian order.

The Confederation of Scottish Knights Templar headquarters is in Glasgow, Scotland. Other SKT Priories are in New Zealand, Pakistan, NATO, Australia, Germany, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Canada, Malta, Lebanon, Brazil, the Marshall Islands, Wales, England, Macedonia, the Phillipppines, and are affiliated with other Templar Orders from Germany, Austria, France, Australia and Russia.

We hold forever the Title; Chef Mondial, or head of the world Knights Templar Autonomous Grand Priories. This Charter was left in Perpetuity to the Scottish Grand Priory by the late world Templars Chef Mondial, Chevalier Baron Anton Lepreucht Rapp, KGCTJ in his will on his demise in Switzerland in 1980.

We are focused on two principal goals: 1) to perform charitable works for the poor, the sick, the old and the helpless and 2) to defend the persecuted church. We hold that due to Scotland's preeminent position within Templar history, we do not recognize, nor admit the existence of any Templar Order with a superior claim to that of our own. We are about a holy commitment to serve the Lord Jesus Christ with all of our heart and soul. Our help to fund Christian families worldwide and help the poor and the sick is payment itself, not the desire to self grandize in the media. Our aid and help is shared in a selfless, giving way as the Poor Knights of Christ.