Catholic religious order

A Catholic religious order is a community of men or women in the Catholic Church who profess public vows and live a shared spiritual, communal, and often apostolic life according to a specific rule and charism.

Observed surface forms (8)

• Catholic religious congregation ×4
• Catholic military order ×3
• Catholic religious society ×2
• religious order ×2
• Catholic religious community ×1
• Roman Catholic religious congregation ×1
• female religious order ×1
• mendicant order ×1

Instances (15)

• Knights Hospitaller via concept surface "Catholic military order"
• Society of the Holy Child Jesus via concept surface "Catholic religious congregation"
• Counter-Reformation
  surface form: Society of Jesus
• Franciscan Order
• Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter via concept surface "Catholic religious society"
• Society of Saint Pius X via concept surface "Catholic religious society"
• Society of Jesus
• Benedictines
• Sisters of Loreto via concept surface "Catholic religious congregation"
• Teresa via concept surface "Catholic religious congregation"
  surface form: Missionaries of Charity
• Congregation of Holy Cross via concept surface "Catholic religious congregation"
• Vincentian Fathers via concept surface "Roman Catholic religious congregation"
• Teutonic Order via concept surface "Catholic military order"
• pontificate of Clement V via concept surface "Catholic military order"
  surface form: Knights Templar
• Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal via concept surface "Catholic religious community"