The Order of the Temple, a revivalist organization, was founded in 1804 by Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat, later founder of the Johannite Church, who claimed that he had discovered that the Knights Templar had never gone away and that there was a continued line of Grand Masters to the present day.
[1] The Order of the Temple's Belgian branch, KVMRIS, encouraged the formation of the International Secretariat of Templars in Brussels in 1894.
[2] The Belgian branch eventually created in 1932 as the Sovereign and Military Order of the Temple, under the regent Théodore Covias (there were too few members to have a Grand Master).
[4] The Order's archives were given to Antonio Campello Pinto de Sousa Fontes during WWII in Portugal; shortly after, he proclaimed himself the Grand Master, resulting in neo-Templarism spreading internationally.
[5] In the mid to late 90s, many neo-Templar tried to "reduce the number of acronyms" and reconcile the differences between the many groups, including the split between OSMTJ and OSMTH.