Catholic religious order

C1776

concept

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.

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All labels observed (35)

Label	Occurrences
Catholic religious order canonical	66
religious order	34
Catholic religious congregation	25
Roman Catholic religious institute	24
Roman Catholic religious congregation	16
mendicant order	11
Catholic military order	10
religious congregation of pontifical right	9
Roman Catholic religious order	8
congregation of women religious	7
Franciscan institution	5
religious order of women	5
Catholic religious community	3
Catholic religious society	3
Eastern Catholic religious institute	3
Roman Catholic religious community	3
female religious order	3
teaching religious order	3
Catholic monastic order	2
Eastern Catholic religious order	2
religious order of pontifical right	2
Catholic missionary order	1
Catholic monastic community	1
Catholic religious congregation of women	1
Latin Catholic religious institute	1
Marian religious order	1
branch of the Marist spiritual family	1
monastic religious congregation	1
ordre religieux catholique	1
religious congregation in the Catholic Church	1
religious congregation of priests and brothers	1
religious order membership	1
religious order of nuns	1
religious order presence in Canada	1
traditionalist Catholic religious community	1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction

generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"

Input

Class: Catholic religious order

Generated description

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.

Instances (214)

Instance	Via concept surface
Récollets	Catholic missionary order
Sulpicians	Catholic religious society
Jedi Order	religious order
Society of the Holy Child Jesus	Catholic religious congregation
English Benedictine community in exile	Catholic religious community
Augustinians	—
Theatine Order	—
Counter-Reformation surface form: Society of Jesus	—
Order of Santiago	religious order
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	—
Franciscan Order	—
Vestal Virgins	religious order
Sisters of Charity	religious order of women
Spiritans	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Redemptorists	Catholic religious congregation
Presentation Brothers	Catholic religious congregation
Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat	—
Order of Saint Augustine	—
Carthusian Order	Roman Catholic religious order
Madonna University	Franciscan institution
Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel	—
Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter	Catholic religious society
Society of Saint Pius X	Catholic religious society
Missionaries of Charity	Roman Catholic religious institute
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary	teaching religious order
Canons Regular of Saint Augustine	—
Presentation Sisters	teaching religious order
Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary	Roman Catholic religious institute
Society of the Visitation	—
Visitation Sisters community on campus	Catholic religious community
Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (sponsoring religious community) surface form: Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary	religious order of women
Little Brothers of Mary	religious congregation of pontifical right
Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross	Catholic religious congregation
Saint Francis University	Franciscan institution
Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston	Roman Catholic religious institute
Order of Christ (Portugal)	Roman Catholic religious order
Order of the Imitation of Christ (Bethany Ashram) surface form: Order of the Imitation of Christ	monastic religious congregation
Sisters of the Imitation of Christ (Bethany Sisters) surface form: Sisters of the Imitation of Christ	congregation of women religious
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus	religious congregation of pontifical right
Picpus Fathers	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Society of Jesus	—
Order of Friars Minor (Bernardines)	—
Congregatio a Sancta Cruce	Catholic religious congregation
Tironensian Order	Catholic monastic order
Order of Poor Clares	—
Sith Eternal	religious order
Tomar surface form: Order of Christ	Catholic military order
Franciscan Friars of the Atonement	Roman Catholic religious institute
Oratory of Jesus	Catholic religious congregation
Order of Saint John	Catholic military order