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  2. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    Catholic religious orders began as early as the 500s, with the Order of Saint Benedict being formed in 529. The earliest orders include the Cistercians (1098), the Premonstratensians (1120), the Poor Clares founded by Francis of Assisi (1212), and the Benedictine reform movements of Cluny (1216). These orders were confederations of independent ...

  3. Category:Catholic orders and societies - Wikipedia

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    Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart (4 C, 11 P) T. Teutonic Order (7 C, 19 P) Theatines (3 C, 23 P) Trappist Order (5 C, 10 P) ... Category: Catholic orders and ...

  4. List of North American ethnic and religious fraternal orders

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    Catholic Knights of America; Catholic Knights and Ladies of America; Catholic Knights and Ladies of Illinois - Founded in 1884 in Carlyle, Illinois, as the Catholic Knights of Illinois. Always admitted men and women, ages 18–50. Had 2,000 members in 1899. [222] Had 8,500 members in 1965, 13,000 in 1978.

  5. Category:Catholic orders and societies by type - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Catholic orders and societies (7 C, 12 P) I. ... Military orders (monastic society) (16 C, 33 P) O. Orders following the Rule of Saint Benedict (12 C, 7 P) S.

  6. List of congregations of the Franciscan Third Order Regular ...

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    The order's motherhouse remains in Aachen and the order maintains houses in Brazil, Holland and the United States. [4] In 1858 Bishop John Loughlin issued an invitation to the Brothers of the monastery in Roundstone, County Galway, to operate schools for the boys of the Diocese of Brooklyn. A group of six Brothers, soon arrived and opened St ...

  7. List of religious institutes - Wikipedia

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    The list does not distinguish between institutes that historically would be classified either as "orders" or as "congregations". Institutes are listed alphabetically by their common names, not their official ones. For example, the Jesuits, officially called the Society of Jesus, would be listed under 'J' rather than under 'S.' If an institute's ...

  8. Holy orders - Wikipedia

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    Ordination to the Catholic priesthood in the Latin Church. Devotional card, 1925. The ministerial orders of the Catholic Church include the orders of bishops, deacons and presbyters, which in Latin is sacerdos. [4] The ordained priesthood and common priesthood (or priesthood of all the baptized) are different in function and essence. [5]

  9. List of religious orders in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

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    Headquartered at Graymoor in Garrison, New York, the Society of the Atonement has social, ecumenical, and pastoral ministries in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Japan. [4] Holy Name of Jesus, Manhattan. Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province - One of seven U.S. units of the worldwide Order of Friars Minor founded by St. Francis of Assisi ...