Category:Grand Knight, Knights of Columbus

The Grand Knight is the highest leader of a Council of the Knights of Columbus, elected from among the Fourth Degree members of a Council. At present there are 15,000 Knights of Columbus Councils around the world.

The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. It was founded by the Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, and named in honor of the navigator Christopher Columbus. Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to low-income immigrant Catholics, it developed into a fraternal service organization dedicated to providing charitable services, promoting Catholic education and actively defending Catholicism in various nations.