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The orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See include titles, chivalric orders, distinctions and medals honoured by the Holy See, with the Pope as the fount of honour, for deeds and merits of their recipients to the benefit of the Holy See, the Catholic Church, or their respective communities, societies, nations and the world at large.
Promote Catholic faith and to support religious, cultural and social works of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in the Holy Land. Recognised as legitimate ecclesiastical decorations by the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry (2006): [1] Patronal Medal: Catholic University of America, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate ...
Catholic orders and societies by type (19 C, 5 P) ... Catholic ecclesiastical decorations (4 C, 11 P) F. Franciscan orders (7 C, 4 P) G. Gilbertine Order (1 C, 8 P) L.
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 ...
Pages in category "Orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Catholic ecclesiastical decorations" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (Latin: Candidus et Canonicus Ordo Praemonstratensis), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons [2] (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Norbert of Xanten, who later became Archbishop of ...