Evansville Area York Rite Appendant Bodies

The Allied Masonic Degrees (AMD) is an invitational, appendant body of Freemasonry that superintends several degrees that are not found within other orders in the United States. The organization focuses on Masonic philosophy, scholarship, and research. To qualify for membership, an individual must be a Royal Arch Mason (Chapter member) in good standing and be invited to join.

  The Red Cross of Constantine is officially The Masonic and Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine and the Orders of the Holy Sepulchre and St. John the Evangelist are called the Appendant Orders. The purpose of the Constantinian Orders are to commemorate the first elevation of Christianity from the position of a despised and proscribed heresy to that of a legally recognized and honored religion, to cultivate the social virtues, appeal to the intellectual and moral qualities, preserve as far as possible the customs of the fraternity and bring about good fellowship and understanding between all branches of Masonry.

Knights Companions of the Order meet in Conclaves of the Red Cross of Constantine and a member must be a Royal Arch Mason (Chapter member) in good standing and subscribe to a belief in the Christian religion as revealed in the New Testament. Membership is by invitation and each Conclave has a prescribed membership limit.

York Rite Colleges of Indiana operating under the York Rite Sovereign College of North America exists primarily to be of service to the York Rite of Freemasonry.

The pre-requisite for membership, which is by invitation only, is good standing in all four York Rite bodies:

Blue Lodge

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Council

Commandery

The Order of the Purple Cross of York, the highest honor of the College, is conferred upon those members of the College who have distinguished themselves by their service to humanity or to the Rite.

Yeomen of York is a fairly new honorary body of York Rite Masonry which was begun in Merrillville, Indiana in the 1990s.  It’s purpose is to promote York Rite Masonry, including the Symbolic Lodge. To become a Yeomen of York, one must be invited. Only “active” members of all four York Rite bodies may expect to be recommended for membership in a Preceptory of Yeomen of York.

The Order was formed in Monroe, North Carolina on March 13,1930. In order to be considered for membership, a proposed candidate must have served as the presiding officer in all four York Rite Bodies:

Blue Lodge

Chapter

Council

Commandery

Knights of the York Cross of Honour is a Honor Group of York Rite Masons who are dedicated to serving the Masonic Fraternity as a Labor of Love. No individual should aspire to membership in KYCH, when he has done the required work, and done it well, he will be invited to membership. Those who labor will be rewarded by being invited. After a Mason has fulfilled the requirements of membership, his name may be proposed for membership by a member of the K.Y.C.H..