The rank of commendatore is also bestowed in several Italian dynastic orders of the royal houses of Savoy, the Two Sicilies, Parma and Tuscany, as well as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (in its Order Pro Merito Melitensi bestowed for merit) and Papal orders.
In 2001 Benson addressed the Oxford University, C.S. Lewis society, and became a Knight of Magisterial Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
In our days the principal representative of this ancient House are Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
He is also a member of the Knights of Malta, and of the Board of Trustees of Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Mary's Seminary and University, and Mount Saint Mary's University.
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George is Conventual Chaplain ad honorem of the Federal Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Grand Prior of the North Central Lieutenancy of the United States for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, and a member of the Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards Advisory Board.
He received numerous honors during the course of his life, most notable his designation as a Knight of St. Gregory and a Knight of Malta by Pope Pius XI.
He has been a member of the Royal Company of Archers since 1971, and is a Grand Officer of Merit of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
The knight Kuno von Buchsee donated his entire possessions to the Order of St. John after having returned for the third time from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Burns is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Order of St. John and is a lifelong member of Red Sox Nation.
He is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Order of Malta Ambulance Corps, an Irish first-aid organisation linked to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Sir Adrian FitzGerald KM, 6th Baronet, 24th Knight of Kerry.
HMEH Frà Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,