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The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Prædicatorum, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán.
Saint Dominic, OP (Spanish: Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (Spanish:), was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists , and he and his order are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary .
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of Saint John of God founded in 1572 by John of God. Order of the Poor Clerics Secular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools founded in 1617 by Joseph Calasanz. Order of Bethlehemite Brothers, founded in Guatemala in 1653 and suppressed in 1820. They were refounded in 1984.
The Order of Christ the Saviour (OCS) is an Anglo-Catholic dispersed Dominican community within the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Order is characterized by its study of Thomistic scholarship and its ministerial focus on deliverance ministry within the Anglican tradition.
Dominic de Guzmán, recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, founded the Dominican Order which was approved by Pope Innocent III in 1215. This list of saints and beati of the Dominican Order is alphabetical. It includes Dominican saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
This included the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena, founded in Springfield, Kentucky in 1822; the first of the third order foundations of women of the Dominican order in the United States. [14] Also included were the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs, founded in 1830 in Columbus, Ohio as a daughter house of the Kentucky community.
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Monasteries and other sites of the Dominican Order can be found in numerous countries around the world. This incomplete list is ordered geographically using contemporary country boundaries, which often differ from historical order, and to the extent possible, chronological order of Dominican affiliation within each country.