courtyard, Rome , Rome Following the expulsion of the Order from Malta by
Napoleon in 1798, the Order's remnants temporarily relocated in
Messina until 1802,
Catania until 1826, and
Ferrara until 1834.
Gotland was offered to the knights by Sweden in 1806, but they refused as they still hoped to reclaim sovereignty over Malta. The Order then settled in its long-held properties in
Rome, which were granted extraterritoriality in 1869. In that period it assumed its modern name of
Sovereign Military Order of Malta. •
Villa del Priorato di Malta, Rome, Templar property transferred in 1312, with the
Santa Maria del Priorato Church •
Palazzo Malta, Rome, acquired in 1630 • , since 1938 •
Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi, Rome, since 1946 •
Villa Pagana in
Rapallo, since 1959 •
Saint John's Cavalier, part of the
Fortifications of Valletta, leased since 1967 by the Order as its embassy in
Malta •
Villa Malta (Cologne), since 1971 •
Fort St. Angelo,
Birgu, Malta (upper part), since 2001 • See also the
list of diplomatic missions of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta In Protestant countries ,
Jerusalem, erected in 1972 by the
British Order of Saint John The
Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg) (
Johanniter) had become autonomous in 1538, and was dissolved in 1811. Since restoration in 1852 it has had its seat in
Berlin until
World War II, then
Bad Pyrmont until 1952,
Rolandseck () until 1962,
Bonn until 2001,
Berlin-Lichterfelde until 2004, and since 2004
Potsdam as formal seat even though the main office remains in Lichterfelde. Its activities include the
Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe. The
British Order of Saint John, formed in 1831 and chartered in 1888, manages several facilities in
Jerusalem under the
Saint John Eye Hospital Group, as well as the international
St John Ambulance network. Its London headquarters, at
St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, hosts the
Museum of the Order of St John. The
Order of Saint John in Sweden was founded in 1920 following the disruption of the
Johanniter in Northern Europe during
World War I. Its headquarters is hosted by the
House of Nobility in
Stockholm. The
Order of Saint John in the Netherlands was created in 1946 in a similar development following
World War II. It is headquartered at 48
Lange Voorhout in
The Hague.
Johanniter International, a partnership of the four Protestant Orders of St. John and their national charities, was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in
Brussels. ==See also==