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| H.E. Marquis Hunter Lisle of Orsha Pontifical Majordomo |
By Staff
ROME-RUTHENIA 14 September 2026 (NRom)
The office of Pontifical Majordomo, one of the Palatine offices of the Pontifical Court and charged with leadership of the Chancery of the Apostolic Household, has recently passed to a new incumbent.
On 10 September 2026, H.R.S.H. Floyd Jack, Prince of Friuli and Chíquiza submitted to His Apostolic Highness the Most Holy Pope Radislav I of Rome-Ruthenia a request to retire from the offices of Pontifical Majordomo, Commander of the Pontifical Airborne Guard of Honour, Pontifical Aide-de-Camp, and his commissions in the Air and Naval Guards. Having considered the petition, His Holiness granted the requested permission, effective 14 September 2026. Prince Floyd served as Pontifical Majordomo from 2022 to 2026.
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| Prince Floyd Jack, outgoing Majordomo |
His Holiness has appointed H.E. Marquis Hunter Lisle of Orsha to succeed Prince Floyd as Pontifical Majordomo, effective 14 September 2026. The Marquis has served in the Church for many years. A prominent businessman, he is also highly involved in charitable and humanitarian service. He holds the Most Holy Pontifical Orders of Christ and the Eagle, the highest honor of the Roman-Ruthenian Church and State, is a member of the Noble Company, the Master of the Horse in the Pontifical Walsingham Guard, and hold various other distinctions. In the Pontifical Court, he was previously a Pontifical Parafreniere.
As Pontifical Majordomo, Marquis Lisle assumes one of the historic Palatine offices of the Pontifical Court and the corresponding responsibility for leadership of the Chancery of the Pontifical & Imperial Household (also known as the Apostolic Household). The office serves within the immediate institutional life of the Apostolic Household and assists in maintaining the order, dignity, continuity, and proper administration of the Household of the Roman-Ruthenian Pontiff.
The Holy Apostolic See extends its congratulations and good wishes to Marquis Lisle upon assuming this responsibility and looks forward to his service in support of the Apostolic Household and the wider mission of the Church.
Christian Service Within the Apostolic Church
Such transitions are good times to reflect upon the meaning of Christian service.
Christian service is fundamentally a vocation under God, but within the visible Church such vocation is discerned and exercised within the ecclesiastical order established by Christ for the governance of the faithful. The Holy Spirit was given by Christ to the Church, and the authority entrusted by Christ to the Apostles continues through the Apostolic ministry of the Church. For this reason, personal prayer, conviction, and spiritual discernment have always held an honored place in Christian life, while the interpretation, meaning, and ecclesiastical consequences of such discernment remain subject to the proper authority and order of the Church. A claimed prompting from God is not self-validating, nor does personal conviction of divine guidance by itself supersede the ecclesiastical order through which the Church discerns and governs.
The hierarchy established by Christ continues to exercise its ministry and authority in His Name today. Within that Apostolic order, Christians are deployed to service not in isolation from the Church, but in communion with her and in obedience to the lawful authority entrusted with her governance. Personal discernment may lead a Christian to seek a new form of service, just as it may lead one to seek release from responsibilities previously undertaken; but where ecclesiastical office is concerned, that discernment finds its proper expression within the order of the Church.
Personal discernment and ecclesiastical obedience are therefore not opposing principles, but complementary dimensions of life within the Apostolic Church. The individual brings prayer, conscience, gifts, and discernment; the Church, exercising the authority entrusted to her, discerns and orders their ecclesiastical expression. In this way, Christian service remains at once personal and ecclesial—freely offered to God and faithfully exercised within the order of His Church.
