Order of Saint John (disambiguation)

Order of Saint John may refer to:

Roman Catholic chivalric orders

• Sovereign Military Order of Malta, continuing the Roman Catholic tradition of the original medieval Order of Saint John, now based in Rome
  • Knights Hospitaller, another name of the Order of Saint John, designating its medieval history

Protestant chivalric orders

• Alliance of the Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem, a federation of mutually recognised Orders of Saint John:
  • Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg), now headquartered in Berlin, an inheritor (like its British counterpart) of the Protestant tradition from the Knights Hospitaller
  • Order of Saint John (chartered 1888), whose Sovereign Head is the monarch of the Commonwealth realms; based in London, its responsibilities include overseeing St. John Ambulance and the St. John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem
  • Order of Saint John in Sweden, founded in 1920 in Stockholm, Sweden

Eastern Orthodox chivalric orders

• Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller, the Russian Orthodox tradition from the Knights Hospitaller, springing from the Grand Mastership of Emperor Paul I of Russia

See also