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This article was written by Mr. Isaac Schuster-Smith, and publised at LUZ COLOMBIANA Magazine, Nº24, June 24th 1.997, year XXI
 

BRIEF HISTORY OF FOUNDATION OF
SERENISIMA GRAN LOGIA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA

On April 9th, 1833, a group of gentleman of the city Cartagena de Indias founded a Masonic Body in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, named GRAN ORIENTE Y SUPREMO CONSEJO NEOGRANADINO, and today is named Symbolic Lodges in Colombia and other countries of Latin America.  This Masonic Body worked in the regularity under the Constitutions promulgated in 1.786, and the Grand East of France chartered it on June 18Th, 1851.  This was the unique Masonic authority governed in Colombia until 1.920.

On November 12, 1911, during the celebration of the first century of the independence in the State of Cartagena de Indias from Spanish colony, SUPREMO CONSEJO Confederado del Grado 33° Neo Granadino, promoted a National Masonic Congress, to discuss items related with the progress of the Order.  In this congress was presented a project to establish Grand Lodges in the Colombian territory, and the Supreme Council issue the Legislative Act N°3, but it was inoperative.

On May 26th - 1918, the Supreme Council convoked the Regular Lodges and Scottish Rite Chapters to a Masonic Meeting at the Grand East, at this meeting was presented a project to reform the Gran Oriente Neogranadino’s Constitution to be a base to founded a Grand Lodge at Cartagena de Indias, capital of the East and to be a Symbolic Freemasonry highest authority in all the country.

This project was approved and be come a Low, and was designated as Legislative Act N° 4, we denote articles N° 40 and 41:

“Serenisima Gran Logia Nacional de Colombia, based at Cartagena de Indias is the Symbolic Freemasonry Highest Authority at this Grand East (Republic of Colombia), and therefore, any foreign Freemasonry Body can establish lodges at the Republic”.

“Freemasonry Association has universal laws, the Freemasonry’s Ancient Land Marks.

On January the 1° - 1920 the Supreme Council for 33°, according with the Legislative Act N°4, convoked four delegates from each symbolic Lodge to National Masonic Meeting, and was founded the SERENISIMA GRAN LOGIA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, according the articles N° 40 and 41.

On this way, the Colombian Grand East was independent from the Supreme Council 33°, and the first Grand Officers were :

Most Worshipful Grand Master  :             W\B\  Francisco García Carbonel
Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master :  W\B\  Martín Camacho
Right Worshipful Senior Grand Warden :  W\B\  Robusto Benvenuti
Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden :  W\B\  Diego Méndez
Right  Worshipful Grand Secretary :        W\B\  Lorenzo Uribe R.
Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer :         W\B\  Pedro R. Suárez A.
Worshipful Senior Grand Deacon  :           W\B\  Anibal Natalí
Worshipful Junior Grand Deacon :            W\B\  Manuel E. Otiz
Worshipful Grand Marshal   :                   W\B\  Julio Blanch
Worshipful Grand Steward  :                    W\B\  Luis G. Royo
Worshipful Grand Tyler   :                       W\B\  Juan Francisco Gómez

Since its foundation, SERENISIMA GRAN LOGIA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, have worked continuously and maintain fraternal relationship with most of Regular Grand Lodges around  the world.

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SERENISIMA GRAN LOGIA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
Con sede en Cartagena  (Colombia)
 

Dignidades y oficiales para el período 1.996 - 1.998 :

Worshipful Grand Master                      : W\B\   Isaac Schuster Smith
Gr\ Deputy Grand Master                     : W\B\   Rafael Salazar Martínez
Grand Senior Warden                          : W\B\   Roberto Suárez Cárcamo
Grand Junior Warden                          : W\B\   Andrés Barrios Villadiego
Right  Worshipful Grand Bard                : W\B\   Rafael Púa Viola
Assistant Right  Worshipful Grand Bard     : W\B\   Alejandro Lozano Cuello
Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer           : W\B\   Simón Miranda Velilla
Assistant Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer : W\B\   Ramón Palomino Jackson
Right  Worshipful Grand Chancellor          : W\B\   Francisco Romano Navarro
Right  Worshipful Grand Secretary          : W\B\   Enrique Martelo Porras
Assistant Worshipful Grand Secretary       : W\B\   Rafael Mercado Sánchez
Worshipful Grand Steward                   : W\B\   Gustavo Joly Barboza
Assistant Worshipful Grand Steward        : W\B\   Ricardo Virgüez Malaver
Worshipful Grand Marshal                    : W\B\   José J. Jinete Tapias
Assistant Worshipful Grand Marshal         : W\B\   Jorge Pizza Cardona
Worshipful Senior Grand Deacon             : W\B\   Daniél Hurtado Pérez
Worshipful Junior Grand Deacon             : W\B\   Ernesto Arteta Baldiris
Right Worshipful Grand Almoner             : W\B\   Joaquín Cancio Collazos
Worshipful Grand Librarian                  : W\B\   Milciades Osorio Díaz
Grand Inner Guard                           : W\B\   Julio Villarreal Garizao
Grand External Guard                        : W\B\  Dairo Kuhlman Romero

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SERENISIMA GRAN LOGIA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
based at Cartagena  (Colombia)
Lodges under its jurisdiction

Hospitalidad Granadina Lodge Nº 1
W\ M\    W\ B\  Humberto Franceschi Pinedo
S\  W\    W\ B\  Mariano Espitia Eljach
J\  W\    W\ BReynaldo Bustillo Cuevas

Union Lodge Nº 9
W\ M\    W\ B\  Guillermo Rovira Rosales
S\  W\    W\ B\  William del Valle Cortina
J\  W\    W\ B\  Roberto Del Río Polo

Lumen Lodge Nº 14
W\ M\    W\ B\  Jaime Dunoyer Erazo
S\  W\    W\ B\  Roberto Palomino Romero
J\  W\    W\ B\  Alberto Comas

Cartagena Lodge Nº 52
W\ M\    W\ B\  Orlando Arévalo Castillo
S\  W\    W\ B\  Rafael Meza Pérez
J\  W\    W\ B\  Edgardo Gómez Torres

Sol de Sabanas Lodge Nº 56
W\ M\    W\ B\  Raul Duran Badel
S\  W\    W\ B\  Angel María Uribe López
J\  W\    W\ B\  Eduardo Porras Mendoza

Luz del Carmen 21 Lodge Nº 60
W\ M\    W\ B\   Julio Villareal Garizao
S\  W\    W\ B\   Víctor Romero Redondo
J\  W\    W\ B\   Juan Manuel Díaz Olivera

Colombia Lodge Nº 61
W\ M\    W\ B\   Francisco Romano Navarro
S\  W\    W\ B\   Enrique Martelo Porras
J\  W\    W\ B\   José Joaquín Jinete Tapias

Aurora Lodge Nº 62
W\ M\    W\ B\   Lácides Solá Reyes
S\  W\    W\ B\   Gustavo Dominguez Acosta
J\  W\    W\ B\   Eduardo Sánchez Quiñones

Magangue Lodge Nº 65
W\ M\    W\ B\   César Iván Súarez Atencia
S\  W\    W\ B\   Rafael Rangel Molina
J\  W\    W\ B\   Mario del Castillo Montalvo

Estrella de Sincelejo Nº 75
W\ M\    W\ B\   Eugenio Gil Gil
S\  W\    W\ B\   Colombo Saladén Carrasquilla
J\  W\    W\ B\   Angel Monterroza Arrieta

Renovacion Aurora Lodge Nº 76
W\ M\    W\ B\   Vicente Ruz Hoyos
S\  W\    W\ B\   Carlos de la Parra Núñez
J\  W\    W\ B\   José E. Prieto Rodríguez

Germinacion del Caribe Nº 77
W\ M\    W\ B\   Wilson Toncel Gaviria
S\  W\    W\ B\   Eduardo Nieves Jiménez
J\  W\    W\ B\   José Iván Peñas Guerra

Estrella de Salomon Lodge Nº 78
W\ M\    W\ B\   Jorge Antonio Pizza Cardona
S\  W\    W\ B\   Joaquín Cancio Collazos
J\  W\    W\ B\   Jorge Antonio Prada Fortul



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