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  2. Enclosed religious orders - Wikipedia

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    Enclosed religious orders are religious orders whose members strictly separate themselves from the affairs of the external world. The term cloistered is synonymous with enclosed. In the Catholic Church, enclosure is regulated by the code of canon law, either the Latin code or the Oriental code, and also by the constitutions of the specific ...

  3. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    In the Catholic Church, a religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious institute. [1] Subcategories of religious orders are: Catholic religious orders began as early as the 500s, with the Order of Saint Benedict being formed in 529.

  4. Carthusians - Wikipedia

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    The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians (Latin: Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has its own rule, called the Statutes, and their life combines both eremitical and cenobitic monasticism.

  5. Religious order - Wikipedia

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    A Religious order in the Catholic Church is a kind of religious institute, a society whose members (referred to as "religious") make solemn vows that are accepted by a superior in the name of the Church, [1] who wear a religious habit and who live a life of brothers or sisters in common. [2] Religious orders are to be distinguished from ...

  6. Carmelites - Wikipedia

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    The Prophet Elijah is regarded as the spiritual father of the Carmelite order.. The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Catholic Church for both men and women.

  7. List of Cistercian monasteries - Wikipedia

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    The Cistercians are a Catholic religious order of enclosed monks and nuns formed in 1098, originating from Cîteaux Abbey. Their monasteries spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, but many were closed during the Protestant Reformation , the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII , the French Revolution , and the ...

  8. Anglican religious order - Wikipedia

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    The Anglican Order of Preachers is a recognized "Christian Community" of the Episcopal Church in the United States and has spread to Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe, the Philippines, Australia and India. The friars and sisters live under a common rule of life and vows of simplicity, purity, and obedience.

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

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    Male religious orders in the archdiocese. Saint Anselm's, (Agustinos Recoletos), Bronx, Nueva York. Augustinian Recollect Friars - The friars serve St. Anselm & St. Rocco Parishes in the Bronx, as well as St. John-Visitation. Tagaste Monastery, a House of Study, is located in Suffern, New York.