The Ordo Militantium Reginae Caeli is spread across the United States and Canada, and for its governance that territory is divided into three provinces — Western, Eastern, and Southern.
A province is the largest territorial division of the Order. Each is governed by a Grand Chancellor, who holds authority over everything within it and answers for it to the General Council. Beneath the province lies the district, governed by a Prior Provincial; and within the district the commandery, the local body in which the daily life of the Order is actually lived.
The divisions are practical rather than sentimental. They exist so that no member is too far from a superior who knows him, and so that the works of the Order in healthcare, education, the Faith, and fraternity are carried by men and women who understand the ground they stand on.
The three provinces of the Order across the United States and Canada. The star marks the seat of the Order in Wyoming; the crosses mark the seats of the Eastern and Southern Provinces.
Territories
The Three Provinces
Each province is set out below with its seat and the territories committed to it.
Western Province
Seat: Wyoming
The largest of the three by territory, the Western Province runs from the Pacific coast and Alaska across the northern plains to the Great Lakes, and takes in the whole of western and northern Canada. The seat of the Order itself lies within it, in Wyoming. For the present it also holds every territory lying outside the three provinces, as set out below.
15 states • 7 Canadian provinces and territories
Alaska
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oregon
South Dakota
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
In Canada
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Saskatchewan
Yukon
Eastern Province
Seat: Pennsylvania
The Eastern Province gathers New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Atlantic South as far as Georgia, together with eastern Canada from Ontario to Newfoundland. Its seat is in Pennsylvania.
17 states, and the District of Columbia • 6 Canadian provinces and territories
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Georgia
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
In Canada
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Southern Province
Seat: Arizona
The Southern Province reaches from California and Hawaii across the desert South-west and the southern plains to the Gulf and Florida, taking in the Ozarks and the Upper South. Its seat is in Arizona.
18 states
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Hawaii
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Beyond the Three
Territories Not Yet Erected Into a Province
The three provinces cover the United States and Canada. The Order, however, is not bounded by them, and men and women write to us from places no province yet reaches.
Until further provinces are erected, every territory lying outside the three is attached provisionally to the Western Province, in which the seat of the Order lies. A member in such a place is a member of the Western Province in full: he stands under its Grand Chancellor, he is counted in its numbers, and he is owed the same care as any brother within its mapped bounds.
This is a provision of necessity, not a settlement. As the Order grows, the General Council will erect new provinces and commit these territories to them. Until that day the Western Province holds them in trust.
Those residing outside the United States and Canada who wish to know how they stand are asked to write to the Order.
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The boundaries of the provinces, and the districts within them, are established by the General Council and may be altered as the Order grows. Members are attached to the province in which they reside.
To ask which district or commandery serves your area, write to us.
Find Your Province
Join the Order Where You Are
The Order receives members throughout the United States and Canada. Tell us where you are and we will point you to the nearest commandery.
