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Pages in category "Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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: monastics (monks or nuns living and working in a monastery and reciting the Divine Office)
Women in the Vanishing Cloister: Organizational Decline in Catholic Religious Orders in the United States (1993) Ebaugh, Helen Rose, Jon Lorence, and Janet Saltzman Chafetz. "The growth and decline of the population of Catholic nuns cross-nationally, 1960-1990: A case of secularization as social structural change."
In 1959, there were 7,913 nuns and holy sisters ministering in the archdiocese, representing 103 different religious orders. As of 2004, there were 913 priests of religious orders ministering in the archdiocese. As of 2008, 2,911 religious sisters and nuns and 368 religious brothers minister in the archdiocese.
Traditionalist Catholic nuns and religious sisters (7 P) U. Ursulines (4 C, 31 P) V. Order of the Visitation (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Catholic female orders and ...
The Order of the Visitation was founded in 1610 by Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France.At first, the founder had not a religious order in mind; he wished to form a congregation without external vows, where the cloister should be observed only during the year of novitiate, after which the sisters should be free to go out by turns to visit the sick and poor.
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Sisters of Holy Cross; Sisters of Loretto; Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist; Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur; Sisters of Providence of the Institute of Charity; Sisters of Saint Anne; Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth; Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart; Congregation of the ...
The Servite Order, officially known as the Order of Servants of Mary (Latin: Ordo Servorum Beatae Mariae Virginis; abbreviation: OSM), is one of the five original mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic Church. It includes several branches of friars (priests and brothers), contemplative nuns, a congregation of religious sisters, and lay groups.