MEMBERSHIP Membership is by invitation upon sponsorship of an existing hereditary or regular member. For hereditary membership, the sponsor must be a member of that category. Under the current policy, after sponsorship and approval, individual membership in each category is for life, with a one-time offering to the Church of USD 50 or Euro 50. The categories of membership are as follows:  Hereditary Membership 1. Holders of hereditary titles of nobility (including the status of noble or untitled nobility) associated with the historic territories of the modern Pontifical Imperial State of Rome-Ruthenia (United Roman-Ruthenian Church) - in particular of the Roman State, historic Russian lands, Slavic states, states of the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France, Spain, North Africa, the Levant, and the New World, as well as of the incorporated states and houses of the Pontifical Imperial State; and members of the immediate family of such families according to the nobility laws of the Church. 2. Knights and Dames of the Aquiline Order of Christ. 3. Bailiffs of the Pontifical Order of the Eagle. 4. Noble Companions of the Noble Company of St. Mary of Walsingham. Regular Membership 1. Holders of life titles of nobility associated with the historic territories of the modern Pontifical Imperial State and of the incorporated states and houses of the Pontifical Imperial State. 2. Recipients of the Religious and Dynastic Orders of Chivalry of the Pontifical Imperial State of Rome-Ruthenia (United Roman-Ruthenian Church) and from states and houses associated with the historic territories of the modern Pontifical Imperial State; and of the incorporated states and houses of the Pontifical Imperial State. 3. Knights Bachelor of Yugoslavia 4. Nobles of the Nobile Anticamera Segreta and higher officers within the Pontifical Court. 5. Serving Companions of the Noble Company of St. Mary of Walsingham. Associate Membership 1. Proven descendants of hereditary or regular members (or of those who would have been eligible for hereditary or regular membership). 2. General Officers, Admirals, Colonels, and Naval Captains of the Pontifical Walsingham Guard. 3. Members of the Pontifical Court at the grade of Private Chaplain or Private Chaplain of Honour and lower. 4. Recipients of the Julian Cross, St. Stephen Cross, and the Patriarchal Service Cross.  5. Clergy of the United Roman-Ruthenian Church and other Apostolic churches. Membership is at the sole discretion of the nominating committee. [Main Page]   DISCLAIMER, LEGAL, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICES