Sir Knight Mihai BUGARU, KCT
Right Eminent Grand Inspector for the Eastern Europe of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar
Right Eminent Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Commandery “King Ferdinand I” of Knights Templar of Romania
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: D
Education: Mechanical Engineering
- Bucharest Polytechnic Institute (1980-1985)
Master of Applied Sciences
Ph.D. in Mechanical Sciences,
Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences,
Academic background
1988-2008: Assistant Professor, Lecturer,
Associate Professor at the
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Marital status: married, two
children
INITIATIONS AND MASONIC PERFECTION:
2000-2001 – Degrees of the Symbolic Masonry
(Apprentice, Companion, Master) R.L. ”Axis Mundi” - Sinaia
January 2002 – Capitular Degrees (Mark Master) –
„Axis Mundi” Chapter - Sinaia
March 2002 – Capitular Degrees (Worshipful Past
Master, Excellent Master, Royal Arch Mason)- POINCIANA Chapter no. 50,
Grand Chapter RAM of
Cryptic Degrees (Royal Master, Select Master) –
„Fort Myers” Council no. 25 – Grand Cryptic Council of
Chivalry Orders (Order of the Red Cross, Order of
Malta, Order of the Temple) – „Fort Myers” Commandery no. 32, Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar of
2008 – Orders of the Red Cross of
2007 - Degrees I, II, III - Zelator, Theoricus ,
Practicus - Societas Rosicruciana in Romania
February 2007 - Order of the Allied Masonic
Degrees of the
February 2008- Knight of the Order of the
Royal Society of Knights Occidental
February 2011 – Eighth Grade-Magister and
Ninth Grade-Magus of the Order of the Societas Rosicruciana in
Civitatibus Foederatis
February 2011 – Grand Sovereign of the Order of
the Royal Society of Knights Occidental
OFFICES:
2002-2004 - Orator, R.L. „Demnitatea Romaneasca”
no. 103 –
2004-2005 - Secretary, R.L. „Demnitatea
Romaneasca” no. 103 –
2005-2007 – Junior Warden, R.L. „Demnitatea
Romaneasca” no. 103 –
2007-2008 - Worshipful Master of R.L. „Demnitatea
Romaneasca” no. 103 –
2006-2007 – High Priest of „Demnitatea Romaneasca”
Chapter no. 17 of Royal Arch Masons -
2007-2008 - Illustrious Master of the Council
„Demnitatea Romaneasca” no. 14 of Cryptic Masons –
2007-2008- Generalissimo of the Commandery U.D.
„Mihai Viteazu” Knights Templar
2008–2009 Eminent Commander of Commandery UD
no. 3 „Nicolae Bălcescu” of Knights Templar
2007–2008 – Secretary of Societas Rosicruciana in
2008–2009 – Chief Adept of Societas Rosicruciana
in
2009 - present Eminent Commander of Commandery
„Nicolae Bălcescu” of Knights Templar
2009-2010 Grand Recorder of the Grand Commandery
„King Ferdinand I” of Knights Templar of Romania
2010 – Eminent Grand Generalissimo of the Grand
Commandery „King Ferdinand I” of Knights Templar of Romania
2010- Right Eminent Grand Inspector General of the
2011- Magus in the Grand Council of Societas
Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis
2011- Ambassador of the Grand Council of Cryptic
Masons in
AWARDS:
October 2007 – Member of Honour of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar of
2009 – Romanian Masonic Order in Degree of
Knight – Grand National Lodge of
June 2009 – Order of Knight Commander of the
Temple – Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, USA
August 2009 – Order of the
August 2009 – Order of Holy Royal Arch
Knight Templar Priests - Grand Encampment of Knights
September 2009- Honorific Diploma of the Romanian
York Rite
INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION:
February 2007 – Masonic week -
October 2007 – Conclave of the Grand Commandery of
Knights Templar of
February 2008 – Masonic week –
March 2009 – The Annual Meeting of the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, of the Grand Council of Royal and Select
Masons and of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Portugal-
Lisbon
March 26-29, 2009 –The 2nd European Regional
Conference of Grand General Chapter of International Royal Arch Masons
and of the International General Grand Council of Cryptic Masons -
Naples, Italy
August 2009 – The 64th Triennial of the Grand
Encampment of Knights Templar -
October 2010- Conclave of the Grand Commandery of
Knights Templar of
February 2011 –Masonic Week –
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
Author and co-author of over 200 articles and
books in mechanical engineering but also in the esoteric field published
in the country and abroad, including:
M. Bugaru, Fundamentals of elasticity with
applications in engineering, BREN Publishing House (CNCSIS,26),
St. Mâşu, M. Bugaru, P. Buneci, A.
Kozma, Masonic Esoteric Essays, Solaris Print Publishing House,
Bucharest, 238 pg., ISBN-978-606-92077-6-5, 2009,
O. Ungherea, M. Bugaru, and others,
MASONRY THE SPIRIT OF A NATION, PHOBOS Publishing House, Bucharest, 182
pg., ISBN 973-7683-13-7, 2006