Ecclesiastical Structure:
Individual Churches and their Congregations

Flag Service Organization

Special advanced auditing and auditor training was only available aboard Flag in what was known as the Flag Service Organization. However, as more and more Scientologists wanted to receive these services, the lack of sufficient space required that the organization move to land, and in 1975, the organization moved to Clearwater, Florida, where it occupied the 11-story Fort Harrison Hotel.

In keeping with its origin aboard the Apollo, this church retained the name Flag Service Organization. Since moving to land, it has grown to the point where it now occupies more than 20 buildings, has more than 1,000 staff, and is the world's largest Scientology church.

Flag Service Organization serves as the spiritual headquarters for Scientologists from all over the world. It is the hub of the Scientology worldwide community, a dynamic and busy multi-lingual organization.

Flag ministers advanced auditing and the highest levels of auditor training in many languages. And because people travel there from all over the world, staying for several weeks or even months at a time, Flag maintains a religious retreat, providing food and accommodations in a strictly religious setting so that parishioners can focus on their spiritual advancement. It also provides a setting where Scientologists from many countries and ethnic origins can form friendships, formulate grass roots plans to forward the religion, and create long-lasting relationships.

The staff of the Flag Service Organization includes the highest trained and most experienced auditing and training personnel of any Church in the world. And because of their expertise, which sets the technical standard in Scientology, Flag also serves an important role in the Scientology religion by training and interning ministerial students from all lower churches and missions. Flag also offers auditing services and training levels that are available nowhere else.

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