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This article appeared on Cato.org on October 3, 2008.

Dr. Carl Edwin Lindgren

Member, Royal Historical Society ( London ) and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars

Background.
Akin to ecclesiastical benefices, with the right of patronage for the landowner who gave estates to support a Priest, similar arrangements could be found in the Order of Malta 1. Whilst the right of patronage 'jus patronatus' could be inherited, the Commanderies could not. The Lord who gave the lands had a right to choose the Incumbent, who needed to be suitably qualified.

Such 'jus patronatus' Commanderies were contained within the Priory of Poland. This Priory existing within the Russian partition of Poland was absorbed in 1797, into a newly created Catholic Grand Priory of Russia.