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International Secretariat of the Masonic Adogmatic Powers

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2345665 ↗
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The International Secretariat of the Masonic Adogmatic Powers (ISMAP) (French: Secrétariat international Maçonnique des Puissances Adogmatiques (SIMPA)) was an international organization of Masonic jurisdictions of masonic lodges. Its members merged back into CLIPSAS in the early 2010s.

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The organization was founded on December 26, 1998 in Brussels, Belgium.

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This entry incorporates text from “International Secretariat of the Masonic Adogmatic Powers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.