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Office: 186 Tremont Street, Room 405
Boston, MA 02111-1003
Phone: (617) 426-1973
Toll Free: (866) 426-1973

York Rite Office Administrator, 
Leon H. Cudworth, Jr.
E: grandsec@mayorkrite.org

Chapter: Grand Secretary, M.E.
Ernest A. Bean
E: grandsec-GRAC@mayorkrite.org

Council Grand Recorder, M.I.
Manual Ferreira III
E: GrandRec@mayorkrite.org

Comandery Em. Grand Recorder, S.K.
Frank J. Kautz II
E: GrandRec-MARI@mayorkrite.org

District Deputy
Grand High Priests
2025-2026


DISTRICT ONE

District Deputy Grand High Priest
R∴E∴ William Oakes Saunders (Cambridge)
District Deputy Grand Secretary
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1769 - St. Andrew’s (Boston)
1818 - St. Paul’s (Boston)
1854 - Cambridge (Cambridge)
1873 - Newton (Newtonville)

DISTRICT TWO
District Deputy Grand High Priest 
R∴E∴ John Tufts Clogston, Jr. (Sutton-Ferson)
District Deputy Grand Secretary 
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1790 - King Cyrus (Newburyport)
1811 - Washington (Salem)
1856 - Pentucket (Haverhill)
1870 - Sutton-Ferson (Ipswich)

DISTRICT THREE

District Deputy Grand High Priest
R∴E∴ Jeramie Douglas Hammond (Orient)
District Deputy Grand Secretary 
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1816 - Adoniram (New Bedford)
1856 - Orient (Centerville)
1864 - St. Mark's (Taunton)
1869 - Sylvester Baxter (Orleans)

DISTRICT FOUR
District Deputy Grand High Priest
R∴E∴ Paul Michael Harris (Houghton)
District Deputy Grand Secretary 
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1821 - Thomas (Fitchburg)
1866 - Doric (Southbridge)
1867 - Houghton (Marlborough)
1870 - Eureka (Worcester)
1870 - Leominster (Leominster)

DISTRICT FIVE
District Deputy Grand High Priest 
R∴E∴ Christopher Colon (Morning Star)
District Deputy Grand Secretary
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1817 - Morning Star (Feeding Hills)

DISTRICT SIX
District Deputy Grand High Priest
R∴E∴ Jason David MacKeen (Satucket-Pilgrim)

District Deputy Grand Secretary
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1861 - Satucket-Pilgrim (Brockton)
1866 - St. Stephen’s (Hingham)
1868 - Samoset (Marshfield)
1870 - Pentalpha (E. Weymouth)

DISTRICT SEVEN
District Deputy Grand High Priest
R∴E∴ Paul Herbert Hansen (Concord)
District Deputy Grand Secretary
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1826 - Concord (Concord)
1826 - Mount Horeb (Lowell)
1863 - Waverly (Melrose)
1886 - Tabernacle (Wakefield)


DISTRICT EIGHT
District Deputy Grand High Priest
R∴E∴ James Sutherland Fontaine (Phoenix)
District Deputy Grand Secretary
District Deputy Grand Captain of the Host
 
1824 - Mount Lebanon (Milford)
1863 - Neponset Valley (Norwood)
2019 - Phoenix (The Attleboroughs)