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{{short description|Prince & Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Matthew Festing
| image        = HMEH Fra%27 Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master, SMOM.jpg
| caption      = Festing in 2008
| succession   = [[List of Princes and Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta|Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta]]
| reign        = 11 March 2008 – 28 January 2017
| predecessor  = [[Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto|Giacomo dalla Torre]] (Acting)
| successor    = [[Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein|Ludwig von Rumerstein]] (Acting)
| regent       = {{Collapsible list|title=''See list''|1=[[Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto|Giacomo dalla Torre]]<br />[[Gherardo Hercolani Fava Simonetti]]<br />[[Carlo d'Ippolito di Sant'Ippolito]]<br />[[Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein|Ludwig von Rumerstein]]}}
| reg-type     = {{nowrap|Grand Commanders}}
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1949|11|30|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Northumberland]], [[England]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|2021|11|12|1949|11|30|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Valletta]], [[Malta]]
| date of burial = 3 December 2021
| place of burial = [[Saint John's Co-Cathedral]], [[Valletta]], [[Malta]]
| full name    = Robert Matthew Festing
| father       = [[Francis Festing|Sir Francis Festing]]
| mother       = Mary Cecilia Riddell
| religion     = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]
}}

[[Friar#Order of Malta|Fra']] '''Robert Matthew Festing''' [[Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)|GCStJ]] [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Efficiency Decoration|TD]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (30 November 1949 – 12 November 2021) was an English Roman Catholic official who was the [[Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller|Prince and Grand Master]] of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] from 2008 until his resignation on 28 January 2017, following a dispute with the Vatican.

==Family==

Festing was the youngest of four sons born to [[Field Marshal]] Sir [[Francis Festing]], [[Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Imperial General Staff]],<ref name="times election">{{cite news|last=Owen |first=Richard |title=Knights of Malta elect Englishman as new leader |work=The Times |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3531729.ece |date=11 March 2008 |access-date=11 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512011215/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3531729.ece |archive-date=12 May 2008 }} (Archived: 12 May 2008)</ref> a Roman Catholic convert who became a Knight of Malta, and Mary Cecilia (''née'' Riddell), the elder daughter of Cuthbert David Giffard Riddell of Swinburne Castle, Northumberland. His father was the grandson of Colonel Sir [[Francis Worgan Festing]]. His mother was from an English [[recusant]] family, descending from the [[Throckmorton baronets]] and Blessed Sir [[Adrian Fortescue (martyr)|Adrian Fortescue]], martyred in 1539.<ref name="times election"/> His three elder brothers are John Festing (a former [[High Sheriff of Northumberland]]), [[Major (rank)|Major]] Michael Festing, and [[Andrew Festing]] (formerly President of the [[Royal Society of Portrait Painters]]).

==Education and career==

Festing attended [[Ampleforth College]], before going to [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he graduated in Modern History.<ref name="times election"/> He was sponsored by the [[British Army]] in the rank of [[second lieutenant]] on a university cadetship whilst at Cambridge before being commissioned, on 23 July 1971, as an Ensign in the [[Grenadier Guards]]; his [[service number|personal number]] was 486330.<ref name="LG 6 September 1971">{{London Gazette |issue=45465 |date=6 September 1971 |page=9657 |supp=y }}</ref> Until 2008, he was [[Sotheby's]] auction representative in [[Northumberland]] and held the rank of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in the [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]].<ref name="times election"/>

Festing was appointed a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] for Northumberland in 1994<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=53845|page=15750|date=10 November 1994}}</ref> and in the [[1998 Birthday Honours]] was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE).<ref name="times election"/> He also served as the County Cadet Commandant of the Northumbria Army Cadet Force and was Patron of the Sandhurst Foundation and a Trustee of Northumbria Historic Churches.

==Order of Malta==

Festing was admitted to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 1977. In 1991, he took [[Vow of obedience|perpetual vows]], becoming a Knight of Justice. From 1993 to 2008, he served as [[Grand Prior of England]], the first in this office since 1815.

On 11 March 2008, Festing was elected Grand Master following a [[conclave]]-style meeting at the order's [[Villa del Priorato di Malta|villa]] on the [[Aventine Hill]] in [[Rome]].<ref name="times election"/> Only the third English Grand Master of the Order of Malta, he was the immediate successor to the second, [[Andrew Bertie|Fra' Andrew Bertie]], the first being [[Hugues de Revel|Hugh de Revel]] from 1258 to 1277.

===Resignation===

Festing and the Holy See had been in dispute since December 2016, when Festing had dismissed the Order's Grand Chancellor, [[Albrecht von Boeselager|Albrecht, Baron von Boeselager]], for [[Christian views on contraception#Roman Catholicism|not adequately reporting on the distribution of contraceptives]], including [[abortifacient]]s, in a medical project for the poor.<ref name="ncregister-2"/> Von Boeselager was viewed as an obstacle to [[Raymond Cardinal Burke]]'s vision of the order, while the German Grand Chancellor's reform-minded approach to the Order's governance clashed with that of Fra' Matthew. Festing revealed he consulted closely with the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]], including its then  Prefect, [[Gerhard Ludwig Müller|Gerhard Cardinal Müller]]. Knights say the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]] was consulted about the case but never presented the Order with any documentation nor did they meet with the Grand Chancellor.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/8897/knights-of-malta-square-up-to-choose-new-leader| title = New revelations as Knights of Malta square up to choose new leader}}</ref>

Boeselager appealed to [[Pope Francis]], who appointed a five-member commission to look into perceived judicial irregularities in the circumstances of the dismissal. Festing refused to cooperate, describing the commission as an illegitimate intervention in the Order's sovereign affairs, accusing its members of a conflict of interest, and setting up his own internal commission. The Vatican, in turn, rejected what it said was an attempt to discredit members of the commission and ordered the leaders of the institution to cooperate with the inquiry.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pullella |first=Philip |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-knights-idUSKBN15901M |title=Knights of Malta head resigns after dispute with Vatican |publisher=Reuters |date=23 June 2016 |access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>

In January 2017, Pope Francis asked Festing to resign, with the latter submitting his resignation on January 24.<ref name="ncregister-2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/2017/01/25/fra-matthew-festing-convenes-sovereign-council-formalise-resignation-office-grand-master/|title=Fra' Matthew Festing convenes a Sovereign Council to formalise his resignation from the office of Grand Master - Order of Malta|date=25 January 2017|website=Orderofmalta.int|access-date=20 November 2017|archive-date=28 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128214357/https://www.orderofmalta.int/2017/01/25/fra-matthew-festing-convenes-sovereign-council-formalise-resignation-office-grand-master/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>"[https://www.orderofmalta.int/2017/01/28/grand-master-fra-matthew-festing-resigns-office/ The Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing resigns from office] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127153430/https://www.orderofmalta.int/2017/01/28/grand-master-fra-matthew-festing-resigns-office/ |date=27 January 2018 }}" (Order of Malta, 28 January 2017)</ref> Cardinal Burke, the patron of the Order, tried to convince Festing to withdraw his resignation and keep fighting the Vatican.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} On 28 January 2017, the Order's Sovereign Council accepted Festing's resignation and re-instated Boeselager. Fra' [[Ludwig Hoffmann von Rumerstein]] was chosen as Lieutenant ''ad interim'' and presided over the Sovereign Council that annulled the decrees establishing the disciplinary procedures against Boeselager as well as the suspension of his membership in the Order. Boeselager resumed his office as Grand Chancellor immediately.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/2017/01/28/grand-master-fra-matthew-festing-resigns-office/|title=The Grand Master Fra' Matthew Festing resigns from office|date=28 January 2017|website=Orderofmalta.int|access-date=20 November 2017|archive-date=27 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127153430/https://www.orderofmalta.int/2017/01/28/grand-master-fra-matthew-festing-resigns-office/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In April 2017, Archbishop [[Giovanni Angelo Becciu]], the temporary papal delegate to the Order, instructed Festing not to travel to [[Rome]] for the election of his successor. He wrote that many of the Order had "expressed their wish" that Festing not travel to Rome for the election as they felt his presence would "reopen wounds" and prevent a return to harmony.<ref name="ncregister-1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/vatican-orders-matthew-festing-not-to-travel-to-rome-for-order-of-malta-ele|title=Vatican Orders Matthew Festing Not to Travel to Rome for Order of Malta Election|website=Ncregister.com|date=18 April 2017 |access-date=20 November 2017}}</ref> As it appeared that Festing ignored this order and arrived in Rome just before the meeting to elect a new Grand Master, the Vatican reconsidered and annulled the order. According to sources within the Order, this was because his absence as a professed knight could have invalidated the ballot.<ref name="ncregister-2">{{cite web|url=http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/vatican-reverses-decision-allows-festing-to-take-part-in-order-of-malta-ele|title=Vatican Reverses Decision, Allows Festing to Take Part in Order of Malta Election|website=Ncregsiter.com|date=26 April 2017 |access-date=20 November 2017}}</ref>

==Death==

Festing suddenly collapsed after attending the profession of vows of Fra' [[Francis Vassallo]], in [[Saint John's Co-Cathedral]] of [[Valletta]] on 4 November 2021. He died eight days later at hospital at the age of 71.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/2021/11/12/grand-magistry-announces-death-79th-grand-master-fra-matthew-festing/ |title=Grand Magistry announces death of the 79th Grand Master Fra' Matthew Festing |access-date=12 November 2021 |archive-date=12 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112200439/https://www.orderofmalta.int/2021/11/12/grand-magistry-announces-death-79th-grand-master-fra-matthew-festing/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> His funeral Mass took place on 3 December at [[Saint John's Co-Cathedral]], presided over by cardinal [[Silvano Maria Tomasi]] and then he was buried in the crypt of that church next to his predecessors.

==Ancestry==

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|7= 7. Evelyn Mary Liddell
|8= 8. [[Francis Worgan Festing]]
|9= 9. Selina Eleanor Mary Carbonell
|10= 10. Henry Blathwayt Festing
|11= 11. Mary Eliza Todd
|12= 12. John Giffard Riddell
|13= 13. Victoria Henrietta Purcell
|14= 14. Matthew Liddell
|15= 15. Hannah Delaval Adamson
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==Chivalric orders==

[[File:Coat of Arms of Fra' Robert Matthew Festing (Order of Isabella the Catholic).svg|thumb|right|Arms of Matthew Festing as knight of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] (Spain)]]

* {{flag|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}}:
** [[File:SMOM-gc.svg|45px]] Bailiff Grand Prior (2017)
** [[File:SMOM-s.svg|45px]] [[Grand Master (order)|Grand Master]] (2008-2017)
** [[File:SMOM-gs.svg|45px]] [[Bailiff]] (1991)
** [[File:SMOM-gc.svg|45px]] [[Knight]] (1977)
* {{MilAward Desc|OBEO|45px}} (12 June 1998)
* {{MilAward Desc|GCStJ|45px}} (5 May 2009)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59053-809107 |title=Order of St John |website=Thegazette.co.uk |date=5 May 2009 |access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>
* [[File:Ribbon - Efficiency Decoration (TAVR).png|45px]] [[Efficiency Decoration|Territorial Decoration]] (TD) (1991)
* [[Image:Ro3osr.gif|45px]] Collar of the [[Order of the Star of Romania]] (6 September 2008)
* [[File:LVA Order of the Three Stars - Commander BAR.svg|45px]] Commander Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Three Stars]] (14 October 2008)
* [[Image:ITA OMRI 2001 GC-GCord BAR.svg|45px]] Knight Grand Cross with Collar [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] (27 October 2008)
* [[File:HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep 1class Collar BAR.svg|45px]] Grand Cross with Chain of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary]] (6 February 2009)<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Magyar Közlöny|title=Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary|year=2009|issue=17}}</ref>
* [[File:MCO Order of Saint-Charles - Grand Cross BAR.svg|45px]] Grand Cross of the [[Order of St. Charles]] (14 October 2009)<ref>Nomination by [http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/100ab120e52ceb84c12568ce002f2909/d2b32224bccbb96bc1257651002c635d!OpenDocument Sovereign Ordonnance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182138/http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/100ab120e52ceb84c12568ce002f2909/d2b32224bccbb96bc1257651002c635d!OpenDocument |date=3 March 2016 }} n°2405 of 14 October 2009 (French)</ref>
* [[File:PRT Order of Saint James of the Sword - Grand Cross BAR.png|45px]] Grand Collar of the [[Military Order of Saint James of the Sword]] (23 November 2010)
* [[File: AUT Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria - 1st Class BAR.png|45px]] Grand Star of the [[Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria]] (2012)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour | language = de | page=1923 | access-date = 13 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[File:Ribbon of an order of king Tomislav.png|45px]] Member of the [[Grand Order of King Tomislav]] (12 October 2008)
* [[File:Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.png|45px]]  [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George]] [[House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies|(Franco-Neapolitan branch)]]:<ref name="Order of Saint George">[http://www.ordinecostantiniano.it/the-sovereign-military-order-of-malta/?lang=en The Constantinian Order and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta] - website of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George</ref><ref>[http://www.constantinian.org.uk/members-of-the-sacred-military-constantinian-order-of-saint-george/ Members of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George] - website of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, Delegation of Great Britain and Ireland</ref>
** Bailiff Grand Cross of Justice with the Collar (2010)
** Knight Grand Cross of Justice (1994)
** Knight of Justice (1991)
* [[File:IT TSic Order Santo Gennaro BAR.svg|45px]] Knight of the [[Order of St Januarius]] (2010)<ref name="Order of Saint George" />
* {{flagicon|Russian Empire}} [[House of Romanov]]:
** [[File:St.AndrewOrder.png|45px]] Knight of the [[Order of St. Andrew]] (2014)<ref name="saintanna1">{{cite web|url=http://saintanna.ru/?id=6&id_news=25&lang=rus|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420091649/http://saintanna.ru/?id=6&id_news=25&lang=rus|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 April 2014|title=Новости|publisher=Saintanna.ru|access-date=23 April 2014}}</ref>
** [[File:Russian Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky ribbon bar.svg|45px]] Knight of the [[Order of St. Alexander Nevsky]] (2014) <ref name="saintanna1"/>
** [[File:RUS Order White Eagle BAR.png|45px]] Knight of the [[Order of the White Eagle (Russian Empire)|Order of the White Eagle]] (2014)<ref name="saintanna1"/>
** [[File:RUS Order św. Anny (baretka).svg|45px]] Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of St. Anna]] (2014)<ref name="saintanna1"/>
** [[File:POL Krzyz Wielki Orderu Sw Stanislawa BAR.png|45px]] Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov)|Order of St. Stanislaus]] (2014)<ref name="saintanna1"/>
* [[File:TOSC Order of Santo Stefano BAR.svg|45px]] Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the [[Order of Saint Stephen|Holy Military Order of St. Stephen Pope and Martyr]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.granducato.org/ruoli-eng.html |title= Sacro Militare Ordine di Santo Stefano Papa e Martire |website=Granducato.org |access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref>
* [[File:PHL Order of Sikatuna - Grand Cross BAR.png|45px]] Grand Collar of the [[Order of Sikatuna]], Rank of Raja (3 March 2015) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2015/03/03/statement-of-president-aquino-during-the-courtesy-call-of-fra-festing-of-the-order-malta/ |title=Statement of President Aquino during the courtesy call of Fra' Festing of the Order of Malta &#124; Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |website=Gov.ph |date=3 March 2015 |access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>
* [[File:CYP Order of Makarios III ribbon.svg|45px| ]] Grand Collar Of the [[Order of Makarios III]] (25 October 2012)
* [[File:Order of Isabella the Catholic - Sash of Collar.svg|45px]] Knight of the Collar of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] (31 July 2015)<ref>{{cite web|title=Real Decreto 754/2015, de 31 de julio, por el que se concede el Collar de la Orden de Isabel la Católica a Su Alteza Eminentísima Frey Matthew Festing, Príncipe y Gran Maestre de la Soberana Orden Militar de Malta|url=http://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2015-8692|publisher=Boletin Oficial del Estado|access-date=26 December 2015|ref=BOE-A-2015-8692}}</ref>

===National honours===

* [[File:ALB National Flag Order.png|45px]] [[National Flag Order]] ([[Albania]]) (2015)

===Crown appointment of the United Kingdom===

* [[File:Royal Standard of the United Kingdom.svg|35px]] [[Deputy Lieutenant]] for the [[County of Northumberland]]

===Honorary citizenship===

* [[Honorary citizen|Honorary Freeman]] of the City of [[Rapallo]] ([[Italy]], 18 September 2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/2008/09/18/the-grand-master-honorary-citizen-of-rapallo/|title=The Grand Master honorary citizen of Rapallo - Order of Malta|date=18 September 2008|website=Orderofmalta.int|access-date=20 November 2017|archive-date=21 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221112632/http://www.orderofmalta.int/2008/09/18/the-grand-master-honorary-citizen-of-rapallo/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Pompeii]], [[Italy]]
* [[Birgu]], [[Malta]]

===Honorary academic degrees===

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"| Country
! style="width:20%;"| Date
! style="width:40%;"| School
! style="width:20%;"| Degree
|-
| {{Flagu|United States of America}} || 10 October 2009 || [[Catholic University of America]] || [[Doctor of Humane Letters]]  (DHL) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://commencement.cua.edu/res/docs/Master%20Listing%20of%20All%20Honorary%20Degrees.pdf |title=Honorary Degrees Conferred by The Catholic University of America |website=Commencement.cua.edu |access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|Italy}} || 12 May 2014 || [[John Cabot University]] || Doctor of Public Service <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/2014/05/13/honorary-degree-for-fra-matthew-festing/|title=Honorary Degree for Fra' Matthew Festing - Order of Malta|date=13 May 2014|website=Orderofmalta.int|access-date=20 November 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034255/https://www.orderofmalta.int/2014/05/13/honorary-degree-for-fra-matthew-festing/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}} ||—|| [[Northumbria University]] || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/government/grand-master/|title=Grand Master - Order of Malta|website=Orderofmalta.int|access-date=20 November 2017}}</ref>
|}

==References==
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==Sources==
* [https://www.ft.com/content/815e74c4-32ea-11e6-bda0-04585c31b153  Hannah Roberts, "Matthew Festing, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta", ''Financial Times'', 22 June 2016]
* Constantin Magnis: ''Gefallene Ritter. Malteserorden und Vatikan - Der Machtkampf zwischen zwei der ältesten Institutionen der Welt''. HarperCollins 2020. {{ISBN|978-3-95967-368-6}}.

==External links==
* [https://www.orderofmalta.int/ Official website of the Sovereign Order of Malta]

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