Lodge GalileoItalian Australian Freemasons
A lodge is built from its members, stone by stone. These are ours: the evenings, the tables and the brothers of Galileo No. 1019.
Past(a) Masters Night
Our Past Masters, a Lewis initiated in front of his proud father, a visitor from the Grand Orient of Italy, homemade salami and limoncello.
14.09.2026 · Past(a) Masters
07.2026 · Salami day
10.08.2026 · 140 brethren, 11 lodges
Baci
09.2025 · A tavola
40 years a Mason
09.2025
08.2025 · New certificates
10.08.2026 · Combined districts
Le nostre serateThe Lodge
Every evening in lodge ends at the table. These are the ones worth writing down.
An evening of brotherhood
More than 140 brethren gathered at the Sydney Masonic Centre for a combined District meeting hosted by Galileo.
Salami, stories and friendship
Our first salami-making day, with homemade wine, focaccia and rum baba. A family tradition, brought into the lodge.
A dinner with purpose
Family, friends and brethren at our fundraising dinner for the Stroke Foundation, joined by a $5,000 Masonicare Interaction Grant.
A tavola
After the work in lodge, we go to the South. There's food, wine, music, and toasts, given at Galileo in English and in Italian.
- —In vino laetitia. In pane vita.In wine, joy. In bread, life.
- IAl nostro SovranoHis Majesty the King
- IIIl Gran Maestro VenerabileThe Most Worshipful Grand Master
- IIIBenvenuti nella nostra LoggiaOur visiting brethren
- IVFelice ci siamo incontratiThe Junior Warden's toast · Happy to meet
La nostra storiaThirty years
From a search for Italian Freemasons in 1995 to the brethren of today: one lodge, measured in its Masters.
On Monday 14 October 1996, more than 200 Freemasons filled the Sydney Masonic Centre to see Lodge Galileo consecrated.
Planning had begun in 1995, when a group of Italian Freemasons went looking for others who shared their background. Brethren of Lodge Trinity No. 666 joined them, and Trinity agreed to sponsor the new lodge. The Grande Oriente d'Italia gave its support and recognition.
Grand Master MW Bro Rev Ray Green installed W Bro Renato Maffei as our first Master. The name was Galileo: the man who looked through a lens and measured what he saw. The motto was Vincit Veritas, truth will conquer.
Since then: lectures on Italian art, science and history; lodge meetings held inside the Jenolan Caves; the first FAME in 2013; and three lodges sponsored: Pythagoras, Miguel de Cervantes and Prince Charles Edward Stuart No. 1745.
Read the full history- Renato Maffeifoundation Master
- Dominic De Candia
- Giuseppe Arduca
- Antonio Coco
- Clemente Farallo
- Filippo Parisi
- Phillip Quadrio
- Vittorio Cusumano
- Giovanni Pirozzi
- Elio Cacciotti
- Giuseppe Buda
- Rocco Lopresti
- Romualdo Reggiani
- Giuseppe Lentini
- Sebastiano Romeo
- Carmine Cosoleto
- Domenico Cosoleto
- Marcantone Cosoleto
- Andrew Bozza
- Paul Longhetti
- Tony Rizzotto
- Giovanni Postiglionein the chair
La famiglia allargataAMIA & FAME
Our family doesn't end at the lodge door. It runs across the country and across cultures.
AMIA
Alleanza Massonica Italo-AustralianaThe Australian Masonic Italian Alliance joins the four Italian lodges of Australia. We travel for each other's installations, with our families: a Masonic family without borders.
- Italia Perth · WA2,131 km to Adelaide
- Leonardo da Vinci Adelaide · SA654 km to Melbourne
- Garibaldi Melbourne · VIC713 km to Sydney
- Galileo Sydney · NSW
FAME
Freemasons Annual Multicultural ExchangeIn 2013 Galileo hosted the first FAME: seven multicultural lodges in one meeting, each opening and closing in its own language. It has met every year since, and the host lodge rotates.
- Galileo 1019
- The Cedars 1041
- Jose Rizal 1045
- Hellenic Arcadia 177
- Indus 1055
- France 1021
- Germania 1036
- Miguel de Cervantes 1038
Our Grand Lodge
Lodge Galileo No. 1019 is a lodge of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
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