Order of Columbus

Order of Columbus
*Ordem do Colombo*
Order of Columbus; Ordem do Colombo ;
Awarded by the Government of Brazil
Type	National order
Status	Abolished as a state order in 1891
Grades	Grand Cross (Grã-cruz); Grand Officer (Dignitário); Officer (Oficial); Knight (Cavaleiro)
	; Ribbon bar; ;

The Order of Columbus (Brazilian Portuguese: Ordem de Colombo) was a short-lived Brazilian order of merit.^[1] It was instituted on 6 June 1890, just two months after the abolition of all Imperial Brazilian Orders.

The first constitution of the Brazilian republic abolished the order of Columbus on 24 February 1891.^{[citation needed]}

The Order consisted of:

a Grandmaster,
twelve real and twenty-four honorary grand-crosses,
fifty dignitaries (Grand-officers),
one-hundred and fifty officers, and an unlimited number of knights.

References

^ Lyra, Augusto Tavares de (1941). Organisção politica e administrativa do Brasil: (colonia, imperio, e republica) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Companhia editora nacional.

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[1] Lyra, Augusto Tavares de (1941). Organisção politica e administrativa do Brasil: (colonia, imperio, e republica) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Companhia editora nacional.

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