Lodges

Respetable, Meritoria, Benemérita y Centenaria Logia Honor (Freemasons)
Respetable Logia Coronel Tomas Cardosa Fuentes No.11257 (Great United Order of Oddfellows of the Republic of Cuba)
Respetable Logia Baracoa (Freemasons)
Porto Santo 150 (Knights of Light)

Respetable, Meritoria, Benemérita y Centenaria Logia Honor

This is the oldest of the institutions of brotherhood of the city, for its origins date from the first Republican period (10th March 1902. It as if the champions of Liberty, once the fires had been extinguished after the holocaust of the Fatherland, felt the necessity to seek within themselves a new and much-desired interior peace, which would erase from their fevered retinas the hallucinatory visions of the heroisms, martyrdoms and sacrifices in which they had so recently participated.

The men who gather under the sign of local freemasonry do not do it for the pure and egocentric pleasure of isolating themselves from reality, but to undertake projects which not only improve their individual moral qualities but are diffused outwards for the benefit of society in general.

This lodge bore the name of the Resp: .Logia Obreros de Oriente until 1967.

The workshop has been directed over its first hundred years by the venerable brothers:

Vicente Beltrán Gonzáles, 1902 Grabiel Jardines Gonzáles, 1959 Antonio Condes Borges, 1922 Francisco Díaz Hernández, 1960 Manuel Sambrano, 1923 Ernesto Milhet Cabrejas, 1961/62 Inocencio Rodríguez Cremé, 1924/25 Mauro Hernández Díaz, 1963 Manuel Galano Cautín, 1926 Aurelio Pilotó Pérez, 1963/65 Ángel Quintero, 1927 Oscar Deya Sarabia, 1966/67 Miguel Jaume Jaume, 1928/30 Rolando J. de Castro Bozan, 1968 Manuel galano Cautín, 1931 Agilio García Cantillo, 1969 Miguel Jaume Jaume, 1932/33 Ernesto Milhet Cabrejas, 1970 Eliseo Osorio Cordero, 1933 Ramón A. Piedra cuza, 1971 José M. Purón Secada, 1934/36 Rafael Delgado Rodríguez, 1972 Antonio Rodríguez Lemus, 1937 Hernán A. Hernández Díaz, 1973/75 Gelasio Ortiz Columbie, 1938/39 Ramón A. Piedra Cuza, 1976 Enrique Hartmann Conde, 1940 Manuel Pérez Argüelles, 1977 Francisco Lobaina Brocard, 1940/41 Rómulo Toirac Alba, 1978 Gelasio Ortiz Columbie, 1942/44 Ramón A. Piedra Cuza, 1979

Alberto Menasse Baruch, 1944 Hernán A. Hernández Díaz, 1980 Jorge George Rigol, 1945 Manuel Pérez Argüelles, 1981 Enrique Hartmann Conde, 1946 Jorge Bargas Infante, 1982 Fermín Purón Secada, 1947/48 Agilio García Cantillo, 1983 Oscar Deya Sarabia, 1949 Eligio Selva Abella, 1984 Fermín Purón secada, 1950 Manuel Pérez Argüelles, 1985 Enrique Hartmann Conde, 1951 Ramón A. Piedra Cuza, 1986/92 Francisco Díaz Hernández, 1952 William Montoya Palma, 1993 Orlando Lahens Leyva, 1953 Ramón A. Piedra Cuza, 1994/95 Fermín Purón Secada, 1954 Manuel Galano Duclo, 1996 Eusebio Borges Granada, 1956 Ramón A. Piedra Cuza, 1997/98 Enrique Hartmann Conde, 1957 Gustavo Furones Borges, 1999 Orlando Lahens Leyva, 1958 Ramón A. Piedra Cuza, 2000/01 Pedro Eladio Sánchez Rosell, 2002

During the first National History Congress, organised by the Cuban-International Society of Historical Studies of the Office within the City Historian of Havana, and celebrated from 8th – 12th October 1942, the historical truth was reiterated that Freemasonry in Cuba has been the pioneer of culture, liberty and progress in the island, without possible comparison with any other institution. This recognition was drawn up into an agreement, a pronouncement and a proclamation.

IN AS MUCH AS: all the liberators of America found in the Masonic Lodges in which they stayed refuge, protection, warmth and help to support and develop their ideas and progressive and liberal proposals, and as Freemasonry holds amongst its distinguished brothers Washington and Bolívar, Juárez and Martí.

IN AS MUCH AS: the leaders and organisers, apostles, propagandists, heroes and martyrs of the great liberation movements of 1868,1879 and 1895 such as Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Francisco Vicente Agujera, Ignacio Agramonte y Loinaz, Perucho Figueredo, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Calixto García Iñiguez, Máximo Gómez Báez, Antonio Maceo Grajales, José J. Martí Pérez and a great many others did not only belong to Freemasonry but what is more, used Masonic Lodges for the further development of their revolutionary activities and many of them suffered prosecution for the crime of Freemasonry.

IN AS MUCH AS: those below signed have the honour to recognize, in the First National Congress of History, the adoption of the following accords:

FIRST: The First National Congress of History proclaims that Cuban Freemasonry has been at all times since its foundation the institution which has contributed the most to the independence, the liberty, the culture and the progress of Cuba, as much from the ideological point of view as by the example of sacrifice, heroism and perseverance set by its affiliates to give to Cuba a life of human decorum, of equality and social fraternity and a policy of healthy democracy…’

Emilio Roig de Leuchsering
Roger Fernández Callejas
Leonardo Mármol
Enrique Gay Calvo
Genaro Artiles