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New York lawyer John Dunlap is new leader of secretive Catholic order, the Knights of Malta
John T. Dunlap
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jdunlap@dunnington.com
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John T. Dunlap is a member of Dunnington’s corporate, international, immigration, not-for-profit religious and charitable institutions, Italy desk and France desk practice areas. Mr. Dunlap provides counsel and legal services to a number of U.S., Canadian and international corporations as well as to several foreign governments. He serves on and advises the Board of Directors of numerous not-for-profit organizations. He has also served as an Arbitrator on behalf of the International Commercial Court in Paris. His immigration practice includes representation of large multinational corporations, U.S. corporations and individuals with regard to both non-immigrant and immigrant employment-based petitions together with family-based immigration matters.
Mr. Dunlap is admitted to the New York State Bar and is also admitted as Barrister and Solicitor in the Law Society of Ontario. He is a member of the Immigration and Nationality and U.S. – Canada Law Committees of the New York State Bar Association Section on International Law and Practice.
Additionally, Mr. Dunlap serves as a Legal Advisor to Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, he is the President Emeritus of the Canadian Club of New York, Vice-President of the Royal Conservatory of Music Foundation, a Trustee of John Cabot University in Rome, President of the Friends of the Certosa di Capri, Italy and a Member of the Sovereign Council of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Rome.
Mr. Dunlap received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa and his J.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He also attended the University of Nice.
In 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Public Service from John Cabot University in Rome.
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Fra' John Timothy Dunlap (born 1957) is the Lieutenant of the Grand Master and head of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta since 13 June 2022.[1]
Education and career
Dunlap was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Western Ontario.[2] He also studied at the University of Nice.[2]
Dunlap is admitted to the New York State Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association.[2] In 1986 he joined the New York legal firm Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller.[1] He became a partner in 1993.[1] He specializes in corporate and immigration law.[2] He is legal advisor to the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations.[2]
Order of Malta
Dunlap was admitted as a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Order of Malta in 1996.[3] He professed temporary vows as a Knight of Justice in 2004.[3] On 7 June 2008 he professed perpetual vows as a Knight of Justice at the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village.[3] In 2006 he was elected the first regent, or religious superior, of the Sub-Priory of Our Lady of Lourdes, which is composed of knights of the first and second classes who are members of the American Association and the Federal Association.[3][4]
In May 2014 Dunlap was elected to a five-year term as a member of the Sovereign Council.[5] He also serves as president of the Committee on the Orders of St. John, set up as a collaborative body between the Order of Malta and the four non-Catholic orders of St. John.
On 13 June 2022 Pope Francis appointed Dunlap as Lieutenant of the Grand Master of the Order.[1]
Charitable activities
Dunlap is President Emeritus of the Canadian Club of New York, Vice-President of the Royal Conservatory of Music Foundation (Toronto), a Trustee of John Cabot University (Rome), and President of the Friends of the Certosa di Capri (Italy).[2]
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