Order of Malta

Rome: Credentials presented by Palestine, Brazil, Senegal and Lithuania

Buenos Aires: Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Luján

Vilnius: ‘Order of Malta: integral part of safe Lithuania’ said President Dalia Grybauskaitė

Texas: Hurricane Harvey: the Order of Malta at work to bring relief

Cologne: A year in numbers in Malteser International’s Activity Report: from aiding refugees to preventing natural disasters

Uganda: One million South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

Rome: In Austria the 34° International Summer Camp of the Order of Malta for young disabled people

Paris: 90 years of Ordre de Malte France

Rome: Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre inaugurates the new Day Clinic in the San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Rome

Rome: Cooperation with Costa Rica stepped up

Minister for Foreign and Internal Affairs

The Grand Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs is the head of the executive branch. He is responsible for the foreign policy and the diplomatic missions of the Order. He is also the Minister of the Interior, in charge of the relations with the 47 National Associations of the Order in the world. Under the authority of the Grand Master and the terms of the Constitution and Code, he is responsible for the representation of the Order to third parties, the carrying out of policy and the internal administration of the Order, as well as the coordination of the activities of the Government of the Order.

Grand Chancellor H.E. Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion in Obedience

Albrecht von Boeselager was born on October 4, 1949 in Kreuzberg/Ahr near Bonn; he is married, and has 5 children.

He was educated in Bonn at the Jesuit college Aloisiuskolleg and graduated in Law in 1974 after studies in Bonn, Geneva and Freiburg. From 1968 to 1970 he served in the military force as reserve lieutenant. From 1976 to 1990 he worked as a professional lawyer.

He was admitted to the Sovereign Order of Malta in 1976, and in 1985 became a Knight in Obedience. From 1982 to 2014 he has been the Chancellor of the German Association of the Order and a member of the Executive Committee of the German Association’s Ambulance Corps (Malteser Hilfsdienst MHD). Elected member of the Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta as Grand Hospitaller in 1989, re-elected in 1994, in 1999 in 2004 and in 2009. Member of the Pontificium Consilium Cor Unum from 1994 to 2005 and member of the Papal Council of the Pastoral for Health-Care Operators since 1990.

He was elected Grand Chancellor by the Chapter General which took place on 30-31 May 2014.