Welcome to Aleksandar Jovanovic. Aleksandar is a member of Resurrectio Lodge # 99, working under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of the State of São Paulo. He has been Grand Secretary of Foreign Affairs since 2008, Deputy Grand Master since 2009, and is Second Grand Principal of the Supreme Grand Chapter of the Masons of the Order of the Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem of the State of São Paulo since 2017. Aleksandar is also active within the New World Tabernacle # 227, District # 47, Brazil, of the Grand College of the Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests or Order of Holy Wisdom of of York. He can be reached at jovanov@usp.br. Welcome on board!
The Transactions – Freemasons in the Transatlantic World – comprising the papers delivered at QC’s American Conference, is now available for pre-order. Click here.
In addition to a Foreword from Elias Akram and an Introduction from Ric Berman, the published Conference Papers include:
The Conflicted Image of Eighteenth-Century English Freemasonry
Paul Monod
The ‘American Peacemakers’: An Introduction to a French Colonial Masonic Order
Neil Wynes Morse
Lovelace Overton: A Bajan’s Transatlantic Experience of Freemasonry
Susan Snell
Swedish Freemasonry on St Barthélemy around 1800: The Complex History of Transatlantic Fraternalism
Andreas Onnerfors
‘Revival of the Grand Lodge’: Provincial Expansion
Mark C. Wallace
‘An Enlightened Exercise of the Right of Suffrage’: A Prosopographical Study of the 1831 Anti-Masonic Party Delegates
Jeffrey Croteau
Francophone Lodges in Baltimore 1794–1822, Masonic Continuity Overcoming Adversity
Jeffrey R. Kaplan
William ‘Hurricane’ Gilbert and the Wilder Shores of Freemasonry
Marsha Keith Schuchard
The Ends of the Masonic Atlantic: Three Lodges that Connected Masonry from Canada to the Caribbean to Cape Town
Hans Schwartz
The Multifaceted Freemasons of Jamaica: ‘Each One Members of the Other.’
Jackie Ranston
Whence Came Ye? The Irish Influence on American Freemasonry
Andrew Hammer
Masonic Activity in New Jersey (1730–1775)
Erich Huhn
The English Lodge in Florence 1732–1738
Lucio Artini & Roberto Perticucci
The ‘Republican Craft’: Freemasonry and the Politics of Loyalist Saint John
David Bell
Seabury: God’s Call among the Winds of Change
John T. Acaster
Freemasonry & Material Culture: The Case of the English Aprons before 1813
Felipe Corte Real de Camargo
Partnerships & the Business of American Masonic Certificates, 1800–1830
Hilary Anderson Stelling
Brother William Smith: Priest, Educator, & Masonic Leader of Colonial & Revolutionary America
Shawn Eyer
The Role of Men of Colour in the Early Period of Freemasonry
E. Oscar Alleyne
1717 or 1721?
Ric Berman & Susan M. Sommers
Tommy Phillips IV is our newest US Local Secretary. Tommy is based in Atlanta, GA, and is CEO and Founder of Crunk Inc., a record producer and publisher. He can be reached at tommyphillipsiv@gmail.com and by cell at (1) 404 574 0808. Welcome!
Our newest UK Local Secretary is W. Bro. David Stockdale, who was initiated into freemasonry in 2008. He is a PM of Oriental Lodge 9371 and St Gabriel Lodge 2995 in Northumberland Province, and in 2018 became a Founder Member and Secretary of the Provincial Grand Stewards Lodge of Northumberland. Professionally, David is the director of a specialist care provider. He is an avid supporter of Masonic Research and can be contacted at dwstockdale@gmail.com.
Ben Freiberg, a member of Internet Lodge, 9659, is our new Local Secretary for East Africa. Based in Ethiopia, Ben can be contacted at qccc.east.africa@gmail.com or via Mobile / WhatsApp on his cellphone: +251-(0)912-627805. He can also be reached at P.O. Box 24551 / 1000 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
A warm welcome to Jorge Henrique Valle dos Santos, our new Local Secretary for the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Jorge lives in Vitória, the state capital, where he is a judge at the Court of Appeal of the State of Espírito Santo (appointed 2015) and a State Court judge (since 1994).
Masonically, Jorge ia Founder member of two lodges, James Anderson # 100 and Martines de Pasqually # 102, and a Past Master of the Lodge Martines de Pasqually #102 (2014), all under the Grand Lodge of State of Espírito Santo. He is also Secretary for Foreign Relations for the Grand Lodge of State of Espírito Santo. In addition to the Craft, Jorge is a senior member of the Scottish Rite and York Rite, and of numerous side orders and degrees. Jorge can be contacted at jvsantos.gaz@terra.com.br.
Hioman Imperiano is our latest Local Secretary in Brazil. Hioman lives in João Pessoa in the State of Paraíba. He holds a Master’s degree in Law and is currently Judge Instructor of the Court of Justice of the State of Paraíba, Auditor of the Sports Court of Justice in João Pessoa, the State Capital, and a Law Teacher. He is a member of Lodge “Acácia Amarela no. 3383 “, federated to the Grand Orient of Brazil – Paraíba (GOB-PB), and a member of the Ancient and Mystical Rosicrucian Order and the Traditional Martinist Order. Hioman can be contacted at hioman.imperiano@hotmail.com.
The Consecration of Quatuor Coronati Lodge #7, Orient Skopje under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Macedonia is to be held at the Temple of Grand Lodge of Macedonia on 6 April 2019. Congratulations to all of those involved in the formation of the new lodge and our best wishes for the forthcoming ceremony.
Adam Mills, a recent History graduate from the University of Essex, is our newest and youngest Local Secretary. Adam became a Freemason only recently and enjoys ritual, the historical aspects of Freemasonry, and Masonic research. He hopes to bring them all together through QCCC. Adam can be contacted at adamamills31@gmail.com.
We are delighted to report that the Quatuor Coronati Research Lodge for Colombia established last year was formally constituted and recognised by Decree by the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Colombia on 18 February 2019. The first Worshipful Master is Jorge Gaviria Liévano, QCCC’s Local Secretary in Bogotá for the past several years and a past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Colombia. Juan Idrovo is the first Secretary of Quatuor Coronati Colombia.
