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Constitution of the Year XII
The Constitution of the Year XII (), also called the Organic Senatus-Consultum of 28 Floréal, year XII ("Sénatus-consulte organique du 28 floréal an XII"), was a national constitution of the First French Republic adopted during the Year XII of the French Revolutionary Calendar (1804 in the Gregorian calendar).
It amended the earlier Constitution of the Year VIII and Constitution of the Year X, establishing the First French Empire with Napoleon Bonaparte — previously First Consul for Life
to be a papal order.
In 1932, Pius XI approved a new constitution and permitted investiture in the places of origin and not only in Jerusalem.
History Protection of the Holy See (from 1945).
In 1945, Pope Pius XII placed the order again under the sovereignty, patronage and protection of the Holy See, and in 1949, Pius XII approved a new Constitution for the order, which included that the Grand Master be a Cardinal of the Roman Curia, and that the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem be