Continental Freemasonry in North America
Template:Freemasonry2 Continental Freemasonry in North America is relatively rare, but there are a number of continental style jurisdictions active.
These groups, although often belonging to groups such as CLIPSAS are not recognized by the Grand Lodges that form mainstream American and Canadian Freemasonry, nor by their Prince Hall Masonry counterparts.
Non English-speaking Lodges
The Women's Grand Lodge Of Belgium (GLFB or WGLB)[1], the Grand Orient of France[2] and the Feminine Grand Lodge of France[3] also have liberal lodges in North-America.
English speaking groups
There are English speaking groups, such as the George Washington Union (GWU)[4], the Omega Grand Lodge of the State of New York,[5] Le Droit Humain (LDH)[6], and the Grand Orient of the United States of America (GOUSA),[7] that belonging to the European, Continental tradition.
Grand Orient of the United States of America
The Grand Orient of the United States of America (GOUSA) is a Masonic grouping in amity with the Grand Orient de France.[8][9] The Grand Master is John Slifko, who has also set up the Roosevelt Center which is concerned with the study of freemasonry in civil society[10]. It claims to have lodges in Washington DC, Cleveland,[11], Grand Rapids, Los Angeles, Mobile, Atlanta[12] Patras (Greece) and Phoenix.[13]
The foundation of the group attracted criticism from Anglo-American freemasons such as Christopher Hodapp, the author of "Freemasonry for Dummies"[14] and Ed King, webmaster of masonicinfo.com.[15]
Other Names
Continental Freemasonry often refers to itself as 'adogmatic' or 'liberal' Freemasonry. On the other hand, among the Anglo-American Masonic Grand Lodges, most of the Continental style Grand Lodges, or 'Grand Orients' as they are often called, are referred to as 'irregular' Masonic obediences.
References
- ^ Grande Loge Féminine de Belgique
- ^ Lodges in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Montréal in Québec
- ^ Feminine Grand Lodge of France
- ^ George Washington Union
- ^ CLIPSAS member list
- ^ Le Droit Humain
- ^ Grand Orient of the United States
- ^ Grand Orient de France
- ^ Grand Orient of the United States of America
- ^ Rite Emulation
- ^ Halcyon Lodge site
- ^ Sirius Lodge site
- ^ Emeth Lodge site
- ^ John Slifko and the Grand Orient of the US, from Masonic Blog by author Christopher Hodapp
- ^ Grand Orient of the US and He's so Grand
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