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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. Holy orders - Wikipedia

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    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] A distinction is made between "priest" and "presbyter".

  4. Category:Catholic orders and societies - Wikipedia

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    Sisters Hospitaller of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Sisters of Notre Dame of Coesfeld; Society of African Missions; Society of Saint Paul; Society of St Peter (Congrégation de Saint-Pierre) Society of St. Charles Borromeo; Sodalitium Christianae Vitae; Sodality of Our Lady; Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer; Stigmatines; Sylvestrines

  5. Holy orders in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    In the phrase "holy orders", the word "holy" means "set apart for a sacred purpose". The word "order" designates an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ordination means legal incorporation into an order. In context, therefore, a group with a hierarchical structure that is set apart for ministry in the Church.

  6. Franciscans - Wikipedia

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    The First Order or the Order of Friars Minor, or Seraphic Order [10] are commonly called simply the Franciscans. This order is a mendicant religious order of men, some of whom trace their origin to Francis of Assisi. [11] Their official Latin name is the Ordo Fratrum Minorum. [12]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Major orders - Wikipedia

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    The great or Holy Orders are Sub-deaconship, Deaconship and Priesthood; the lesser or Minor Orders are Porter, Reader, Exorcist, and Acolyte. [1] The Catechism of the Council of Trent thus repeats what is stated in chapter II of that Council's Decree on the Sacrament of Order, using the word "priest" to refer both to bishops and to presbyters. [2]

  9. Catholic order liturgical rite - Wikipedia

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    A Catholic order liturgical rite is a variant of a Catholic liturgical rite distinct from the typical ones, such as the Roman Rite, but instead specific to a certain Catholic religious order. Catholic order liturgical rites exist as variants of both Latin liturgical rites and Eastern liturgical rites , that is of both the Latin Church and the ...