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The Order of St. John Today
The headquarters of the Order are St. John's Gate Clerkenwell, where there are still many trances of the ancient fabric of the Priory of Clerkenwell. Separate and largely autonomous branches exist in all the principal Commonwealth countries and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The charitable work of the Order is now expressed principally through two foundations:
 
1. The St. John Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem founded in 1882 and rebuilt in 1960 is designed to serve as a consulting Ophthalmic Hospital for the Middle East. It gives free treatment every year to very large numbers of patients who come to it from far and wide.
 
2. The St. John Ambulance Association and Bridage, or in short St. John Ambulance, operate throughout the Commonwealth and in some other countries too. Its objectives are to spread a knowledge of First Aid, Nursing and all allied subjects as widely as possible amongst the general public and industry and to provide a voluntary practical service in these subjects for the community. To these ends it organizes classes and examinations, issues government-recognised certificates to successful candidates, arranges competitions, publishes textbooks, and develops training aids.
 
The practical service is provided by uniformed and trained volunteers - men, women and cadets - who accept a code of discipline and give up their time to be on duty whenever crowds collect and casualties may be expected.

The Objects Of The Order
The encouragement of all that makes for the moral and spiritual strengthening of mankind in accordance with the first great principal of the Order of embodied in its motto 'Pro Fide' (For the Faith).
 
The encouragement and promotion of all works of humanity and charity for the relief of persons in sickness, distress, suffering and danger, without distinction of race, or creed, and the extension of the second great principle of the Order, embodied in its motto 'Pro Utilitate Hominum' (For the Service Of Mankind).
 
The Great Officers Of The Order
Her Majesty The Queen Is The Sovereign Head Of The Order
The Grand Prior
The Lord Prior
The Prelate
The Chancellor
The Bailiff of Egle
 
The Grand Prior, under the Sovereign Head, is supreme over the Order and all its establishments, Members and Associations.
 
The supreme governing body of the Order, under the Sovereign Head and subject to the Grand Prior's right of veto, is the chapter-General. It consists of the Great Officers and other Bailiffs Grand Crors the Priors, the Executive Officers, certain Knights and representatives of the other grades of the Order. A smaller body which can be summoned more easily is the Council. It is primarily the advisory body of the chapter-General, but may also act for it in all matters of routine or urgency.
 
The Executive Officers Of The Order
The Chancellor
The Secretary-General
The Receiver-General (The Chief Financial Officer)
The Director-General of the St. John Ambulance Association
The Hospitaller (responsible for the control of the Ophthalmic Hospital at Jerusalem)
The Almoner
The Librarian
The Registrar
The Genealogist
The Director of Ceremonies
The Commissioner-in-Chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade
 
The Order And Its Foundation
The Grand Prior
The Lord Prior
The Chapter-General
The Council

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