Jean-Pierre Mazery is the Grand Chancellor (and Foreign Minister

Foreign minister

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) of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), a post he has held since 2005.

Career

Mazery has been a Knight of Malta since 1975. On 16 April 2005, he was elected Grand Chancellor of the Order, following the resignation of H.E. Bailiff Count Jacques de Liedekerke. He was subsequently re-elected in 2009. In the Palazzo Malta

Palazzo Malta

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, (Rome

Rome

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), he was first under the authority of Grand Master Andrew Bertie, and since 2008 under the authority of Grand Master Matthew Festing

Matthew Festing

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. Owing to his high office, he has been created a Knight of Obedience

Knight of Obedience

Knight of Obedience is a rank in the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta. Unlike those professed chaplains and knights who take vows of chastity, poverty and obedience these Knights, and now Dames, make a promise of obedience...

 of the Order of Malta.

Honours and awards

: Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion in Obedience of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of the Order pro merito Melitensi

Order pro merito Melitensi

The Order of Merit pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a knightly order of merit established in 1920. It is awarded to men and women who have brought honour and prestige to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta or actively promoted Christian values or works of charity...

: Officer of the Legion of Honour (31 December 2009): Knight of the National Order of Merit: Officier of the Order of Arts and Letters: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX

Order of Pius IX

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: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic was founded as the senior order of knighthood by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi in 1951...