National civil order of Portugal
Chain of the Order of Liberty TheOrder of Liberty , or theOrder of Freedom (Portuguese :Ordem da Liberdade ), is a Portuguese honorific civilorder that distinguishes relevant services to the cause of democracy and freedom, in the defense of the values of civilization and human dignity. The order was created in 1976, after theCarnation Revolution of 1974 in which thecorporatist authoritarianEstado Novo António de Oliveira Salazar andMarcello Caetano was deposed. The Grand Collar can also be given by thePresident of Portugal to former Heads of State and others whose deeds are of an extraordinary nature and particular relevance to Portugal, making them worthy of such a distinction.[ 2]
The order includes six classes; in decreasing order of seniority, these are:[ 3]
Grande-Colar – GColL)Grã-Cruz – GCL)Grande-Oficial – GOL)Comendador – ComL)Oficial – OL)Cavaleiro – CvL / Dama – DmL)Like the other Portuguese orders, the title of Honorary Member (Membro Honorário – MHL) can be awarded to institutions and locals.
List of Grand Collars of the Order of Liberty [ edit ] Portuguese recipients [ edit ] 28 October 1987:François Mitterrand , former president of France 13 October 1988: KingJuan Carlos I of Spain 13 December 1990:Václav Havel , former president of the Czech Republic 11 November 1991:António Mascarenhas Monteiro , former president of Cape Verde 26 August 1992:Patricio Aylwin , former president of Chile 12 October 1992:Miguel Trovoada , former president of São Tomé and Príncipe 11 May 1993:Lech Wałęsa , former president of Poland 13 September 1994:Zhelyu Zhelev , former president of Bulgaria 4 October 1995:Fernando Henrique Cardoso , former president of Brazil 11 October 1995:Sam Nujoma , former president of Namibia 23 July 2003:Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , former president of Brazil 11 October 2005:Kofi Annan , former secretary-general of United Nations 30 June 2016:Joaquim Chissano , former president of Mozambique 19 July 2016:François Hollande , former president of France 30 March 2017:Michelle Bachelet , former president of Chile 10 April 2017:Jorge Carlos Fonseca , former president of Cape Verde 23 May 2017:Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 13 November 2017:Juan Manuel Santos , former president of Colombia 6 December 2017:Sergio Mattarella , President of Italy 15 April 2018: KingFelipe VI of Spain 10 December 2022:Amílcar Cabral (posthumously) 24 August 2023:Volodymyr Zelenskyy , President of Ukraine 7 October 2023:Klaus Iohannis , President of Romania 27 February 2025:Emmanuel Macron , President of France List of Grand Crosses of the Order of Liberty [ edit ] 16 July 1988:Maria Helena Vieira da Silva , abstract painter 30 June 1989:Andreas Papandreou , former prime minister of Greece 22 April 1991:Nelson Mandela , former president of South Africa 25 January 1993:Árpád Göncz , former president of Hungary 9 June 1993:Xanana Gusmão , former president of East Timor 28 December 1994:Álvaro Lins , former ambassador of Brazil 24 April 1995:Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez , former Parliamentary Assembly President, Council of Europe 29 May 1995:José Francisco Peña Gómez , former mayor of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 17 June 1995:Mikhail Gorbachev , former president of Soviet Union 1 March 1996:Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , former secretary-general of United Nations 22 February 1996:Adolfo Suárez , former prime minister of Spain 9 June 1998:José Ramos-Horta , President of East Timor 11 March 2000:Pascoela Barreto , Ambassador of East Timor to Portugal 23 July 2003:Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva , former first lady of Brazil 22 March 2005:Lionel Jospin , former prime minister of France 5 January 2006:Albie Sachs , former judge of Constitutional Court, South Africa 13 May 2016:Ban Ki-moon , former secretary-general of United Nations 16 January 2017:Martin Schulz , former president of the European Parliament 19 July 2017: Shah KarimAga Khan IV 15 April 2018:Queen Letizia of Spain 5 July 2018: SirPeter Cosgrove , former governor-general of Australia 24 August 2023:Volodymyr Zelensky , President of Ukraine
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Grand Collar (Grande-Colar – GColL)
Grand Cross (Grã-Cruz – GCL)
Grand Officer (Grande-Oficial – GOL)
Commander (Comendador – ComL)
Officer (Oficial – OL)
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