Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni

Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni (post-nominals: OCM) (English: Order of Saint Constantine the Great) is a self-styled[citation needed] international, ecumenical, and religious Christian Order and knighthood under the auspices of the Patriarch and Pope Theodoros II of Alexandria and all Africa.

[1] The Order was established in 1953 in Switzerland[2] to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople with most original knights hailing from Finland and Greece.

Honorary members include figures such as Finnish president Sauli Niinistö, Lutheran archbishops Jukka Paarma and John Vikström and Orthodox archbishops Leo and John as well as Russian Nobel Prize laureate Zhores Alferov.

[9] The Government was chaired 1999–2009 by the Chancellor Raimo Ilaskivi, and other members of the Executive Committee were the Vice Chancellor Hans-Olof Kvist, General Secretary Jürgen Schumacher and Treasurer Reino Koskinen.

[9] Beaufort-Spontin also appointed George Haramis Ambassador of the Order to the Patriarchate.