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This Swedish Order separated from the German Johanniterorden in 1946.

Known as the Johanniterorden i Sverige, and with the Swedish monarch is its High Protector, it helped found the Alliance of the Orders of St. John of Jerusalem on June 13, 1961.

Even though it is still a semi-official chivalric order of the Swedish state, membership of the Swedish Order in practice remains limited to noblemen.