ROYAL ARCH MASONRY

This article is about Royal Arch Masonry as practiced in the “American” or York Rite. For the similar body in the UK, see HOLY ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

Royal Arch Masonry (also known as “Capitular Masonry”) is the first part of the York Rite system of the Masonic degrees. Royal Arch Masons meet as a Chapter, and the Royal Arch Chapter confers four degrees: Mark Master Mason, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and Royal Arch Mason.