This article was written
by Mr. Isaac Schuster-Smith, and publised at LUZ COLOMBIANA Magazine, Nº24,
June 24th 1.997, year XXI
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 :
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Anibal Natalí
Worshipful Junior
Grand Deacon :
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Manuel E. Otiz
Worshipful Grand Marshal
:
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Julio Blanch
Worshipful Grand Steward
:
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Luis G. Royo
Worshipful Grand Tyler
:
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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.
Dignidades y oficiales para el período 1.996 - 1.998 :
Worshipful Grand Master
: W\B\
Isaac Schuster Smith
Gr\
Deputy Grand Master
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Rafael Salazar Martínez
Grand Senior Warden
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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 :
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Simón Miranda Velilla
Assistant Right Worshipful
Grand Treasurer : W\B\
Ramón Palomino Jackson
Right Worshipful
Grand Chancellor
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Francisco Romano Navarro
Right Worshipful
Grand Secretary :
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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
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Joaquín Cancio Collazos
Worshipful Grand Librarian
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Milciades Osorio Díaz
Grand Inner Guard
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Julio Villarreal Garizao
Grand External Guard
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Dairo Kuhlman Romero
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