The International Secretariat of the Masonic Adogmatic Powers (ISMAP) (French: Secrétariat international Maçonnique des Puissances Adogmatiques (SIMPA)) is an international organization of Masonic jurisdictions of masonic lodges

Freemasonry

Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...

. The jurisdictions involved are considered irregular

Regular Masonic jurisdictions

Regularity is the process by which individual Grand Lodges recognise one another for the purposes of allowing formal interaction at the Grand Lodge level and visitation by members of other jurisdictions.-History:...

 by the United Grand Lodge of England

United Grand Lodge of England

The United Grand Lodge of England is the main governing body of freemasonry within England and Wales and in other, predominantly ex-British Empire and Commonwealth countries outside the United Kingdom. It is the oldest Grand Lodge in the world, deriving its origin from 1717...

 (UGLE) and most other Anglo-Saxon Grand Lodges, because they accept women, or do not require Masons to have a belief in a Supreme Being

Supreme Being

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History

The organization was founded on December 26, 1998 in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, Belgium

Belgium

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. The organization was founded after the Grand Orient de France

Grand Orient de France

The Grand Orient de France is the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe, founded in 1733.-Foundation:...

 and the Grand Orient of Belgium

Grand Orient of Belgium

The Grand Orient of Belgium The Grand Orient of Belgium The Grand Orient of Belgium (French: Grand Orient de Belgique, Dutch: Grootoosten van Belgie (G.O.B.) is a Belgian cupola of masonic lodges which is only accessible for men, and works in the basic three symbolic degrees of freemasonry.-History:...

 left CLIPSAS.

Membership

SIMPA members as of 2000:
Europe & Asia (17):

• Grand Orient de Belgique
• Grande Loge de Belgique
• Grande Loge Féminine de Belgique
• Grand Orient de France
• Grande Loge de Memphis-Misraïm (France)
• Grande Loge Féminine de Memphis-Misraïm (France)
• Grande Loge Mixte Universelle (France)
• Fédération française du Droit Humain (France)
• Sérénissime Grand Orient de Grèce
• Grand Orient de Hongrie
• Gran Loggia d’Italia ALAM
• Grand Orient de Luxembourg
• Grand Orient de Pologne (Poland)
• Gran Logia Simbolica Española
• Grand Orient de Suisse
• Grande Loge Féminine de Suisse
• Grande Loge Maçonnique de Turquie

Americas:

• George Washington Union (USA)
• Grande Loja Unida de São Paulo (Brazil)
• Grande Oriente de Santa Catarina (Brazil)