Great East of Belgium

Great East of Belgium
Great East of Belgium
	BBB
	Grand orient de belique
Founding date	January 16, 1833
Type of	Great east
Number of participants	10,500
Great master	Henry charpentier
City	Brussels , Belgium
Site	gob.be

The Great East of Belgium (WWB) ( fr. Grand Orient de Belgique ) is the largest and oldest Masonic obedience in Belgium ^[1] .

Content

History of the BBB

In the course of the changes that took place on January 16, 1833 , the "Grand Directorial Lodge of the South of the Netherlands" was transformed into the Great East of Belgium. At the same time, the lodge received the patronage and protection of King Leopold I , who is believed to be a freemason himself ^[2] .

This obedience is currently the largest in Belgium. As of March 1, 2012, there were 110 lodges in the WWB (the so-called blue or symbolic lodges), which unite more than 10,125 brothers. Of the 110 lodges, 29 are in the north, 34 in Brussels , 45 in the south, and one in the state of Burundi in its capital, Bujumbura . Currently, there are no German lodges that would work under the auspices of the Great East of Belgium. The average age of brothers is 60 years, the average age of brothers when they come to the fraternity and are initiated is 44 years ^[3] .

The great east of Belgium is exclusively male obedience, and its lodges are dedicated only to men. The lodges, however, have the right to decide independently the issue of inviting women (sisters) as guests to their works ^[4] .

The overwhelming majority of lodges working in the WWB use the French charter . Some of the lodges operate according to the Ancient and accepted Scottish bylaws ^[5] .

In the Great East of Belgium, a division took place in 1959 , which led to the creation of the Belgian Grand Lodge (VLB), and which also split in 1979 , when 9 lodges leaving the VLB created the Belgium Grand Regular Lodge, the only obedience in Belgium that is recognized in the present, United Great Lodge of England ^[6] ^[1] .

Participation in international organizations

December 26, 1998 ^[7] , in Brussels, the Great East of France and the Great East of Belgium created SIMPA (International Secretariat of Masonic Adogmatic Obedience ( fr. Secrétariat international Maçonnique des Puissances Adogmatiques ), after they left the other Masonic organization - CLIPSAS ^{[ 8]} .

The building of the box "Perfect Union"
Interior of the Friends of Philanthropy Lodge in Brussels
Zapon the venerable master of modern [French] ritual (1801)
Postage stamp created for VVB
Stained glass in the building of the lodge "Unity and Philanthropy"

Famous Freemasons of the VVB

List of Freemasons at different times held in the lodges of the BBB ^[9] ^[10] ^[11] ^[12] :

Vietan, Henri , 1820-181.
Coster, Charles Theodore Henri de , 1827–1879.
Bordeaux, Jules , 1870-1961.
Gossek, Francois Joseph , 1734-1829.
Horta, Victor , 1861-1947.
La Fontaine, Henri , 1854-1943. - Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1913.
Lin, Charles-Joseph de , 1735-1814.
Meunier, Constantine , 1831-1905.
Rops, Felicien , 1833-1898.
Vandervelde, Emil , 1866–1938.
Jules Anspach, 1829–1879.
François Bovesse, 1890-1944.
Auguste Buisseret, 1888-1965.
Léo Campion, 1905-1992.
Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, 1846-1925.
Hervé Hasquin, 1942.
Charles Magnette, 1863-1937.
Louis Michel, 1947.
Edmond Picard, 1836-1924.
Goswin de Stassart, 1780-18554. - The first great master from 1833 to 1841.
Auguste van Dievoet, 1803-1865.
Henri van Dievoet, 1869–1931.
Théodore Verhaegen, 1796–1862. The great master from 1854 to 1862.
Jules Hiernaux, 1881-1944. Great master 1937 to 1939.
Robert Hamaide, - Great Master from 1954 to 1957.

The great masters of the WWB
Goswin de Stassart.
Eugène Defacqz.
Theodore Verhaegen.
Eugène Goblet d'Alviella.
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie.
Charles Magnette

Bibliography

GOB, La Franc-Maçonnerie du Grand Orient de Belgique: brochure d'information destinée aux frères nouvellement initiés, eigen beheer, 1980, ISBN 4019997015511
Gérard, Jo, La Franc-Maçonnerie en Belgique, Editions JM Collet, Bruxelles, 1988
GOB, Vrijmetselaar bij het Grootoosten van België, eigen beheer, Brussel, 1999, ISBN 9782874300868
Lemaire, Jacques, La Franc-Maçonnerie en Belgique - les Loges symbolique, Encyclopédie Maçonnique, Editions Maçonniques de France, Paris, 2000, ISBN 2903846642
Thyssen, Jeffry, Van Wijsheid met Vreugd gepaard - Twee eeuwen Vrijmetselarij in Gent en Antwerpen, Marot, Brussel, 2003, ISBN 2930117273
De Schatten van de Tempel, Mercatorfonds, Brussel, 2006, ISBN 9061536634

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Jacques Lemaire, La Franc-maçonnerie en Belgique, les Loges symboliques, ( ISBN 2-903846-64-2 ), Editions maçonniques de France, Encyclopédie Maçonnique, Paris, 2000
↑ La Franc-Maçonnerie du Grand Orient de Belgique: brochure d'information destinée aux frères nouvellement initiés, eigen beheer, 1980, ISBN 4019997015511
↑ http://www.gob.be Grand Orient de Belgique
↑ GOB, Vrijmetselaar bij het Grootoosten van België, eigen beheer, Brussel, 1999, ISBN 9782874300868
↑ Thyssen, Jeffry, Van Wijsheid met Vreugd gepaard - Twee eeuwen Vrijmetselarij in Gent en Antwerpen, Marot, Brussel, 2003, ISBN 2930117273
↑ Poma, Karel, Actie Vrijmetselaren: een politieke benadering van de moderne vrijmetselarij, Roularta Books, Zellik, 1995
Ips Clipsas and similar Masonic Organizations Archived January 6, 2009.
↑ Peitre-Stones Review of Freemasonry Pope, Tony; Liberal and Adogmatic Grand Lodges At a perpetual distance: Liberal and Adogmatic Grand Lodges (Presented to Waikato Lodge of Research No. 445 at Rotorua, New Zealand, on 9 November 2004, , vol 14 # 1, March 2005) - as reproduced at
↑ GOB: Force - Maçons célèbres: par ordre alphabétique
↑ F Clément (bis). Histoire de la Franc-maçonnerie belge au XIXe siècle. Ed. Suprême Conseil, Bruxelles, 1940.
↑ Els Witte. La franc-maçonnerie belge face au mouvement flamand du XIXe siècle. In Visages de la Franc-maçonnerie du XVIIIe au XXe siècle. (Direction scientifique H Hasquin). Ed. de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1983.
↑ Hugo de Schampheleire, Els Witte, Fernand V Borné. Essai bibliographique relatif à l'histoire de la Franc-maçonnerie belge, 1798–1855. Aureliae scientifica. Leuven, 1973.

Links

Site of the Great East of Belgium

[autogenerated1-1] ¹ ² Jacques Lemaire, La Franc-maçonnerie en Belgique, les Loges symboliques, ( ISBN 2-903846-64-2 ), Editions maçonniques de France, Encyclopédie Maçonnique, Paris, 2000

[2] La Franc-Maçonnerie du Grand Orient de Belgique: brochure d'information destinée aux frères nouvellement initiés, eigen beheer, 1980, ISBN 4019997015511

[3] ttp://www.gob.be Grand Orient de Belgique

[4] GOB, Vrijmetselaar bij het Grootoosten van België, eigen beheer, Brussel, 1999, ISBN 9782874300868

[5] Thyssen, Jeffry, Van Wijsheid met Vreugd gepaard - Twee eeuwen Vrijmetselarij in Gent en Antwerpen, Marot, Brussel, 2003, ISBN 2930117273

[6] Poma, Karel, Actie Vrijmetselaren: een politieke benadering van de moderne vrijmetselarij, Roularta Books, Zellik, 1995

[7] Ips Clipsas and similar Masonic Organizations Archived January 6, 2009.

[autogenerated2-8] Peitre-Stones Review of Freemasonry Pope, Tony; Liberal and Adogmatic Grand Lodges At a perpetual distance: Liberal and Adogmatic Grand Lodges (Presented to Waikato Lodge of Research No. 445 at Rotorua, New Zealand, on 9 November 2004, , vol 14 # 1, March 2005) - as reproduced at

[9] GOB: Force - Maçons célèbres: par ordre alphabétique

[10] F Clément (bis). Histoire de la Franc-maçonnerie belge au XIXe siècle. Ed. Suprême Conseil, Bruxelles, 1940.

[11] Els Witte. La franc-maçonnerie belge face au mouvement flamand du XIXe siècle. In Visages de la Franc-maçonnerie du XVIIIe au XXe siècle. (Direction scientifique H Hasquin). Ed. de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1983.

[12] Hugo de Schampheleire, Els Witte, Fernand V Borné. Essai bibliographique relatif à l'histoire de la Franc-maçonnerie belge, 1798–1855. Aureliae scientifica. Leuven, 1973.