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
The Silence	religious order
CMF	Roman Catholic religious institute
Order of Aviz	religious order
Mercedarians	—
Quincy University	Franciscan institution
Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem	Catholic military order
De La Salle Brothers	religious order of pontifical right
Fratres Scholarum Christianarum	Roman Catholic religious institute
Hermanos de las Escuelas Cristianas	Roman Catholic religious institute
Order of Friars Minor	—
Jesuits worldwide	religious order membership
Hieronymites	—
Dashanami Sampradaya	religious order
Loyal Orange Institution	religious order
Lourdes University	Franciscan institution
Benedictines	—
Order of Fontevraud	—
Order of Saint Ursula	Roman Catholic religious order
Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre	religious order
Congregation of the Oratory	religious congregation in the Catholic Church
Gilbertine Order	religious order
Franciscan (in many retellings) surface form: Franciscan Order	—
Francesco di Paola surface form: Order of Minims	—
di Paola surface form: Order of Minims	—
Order of Minims	Roman Catholic religious order
Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary	religious order of nuns
Order of Cluny	—
Camaldolese Order	—
Trinitarians	Roman Catholic religious order
Spanish Trinitarian Order	—
Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence	—
Salii	religious order
Hermanas Hijas de María Auxiliadora	religious congregation of pontifical right
Order of Alcántara	—
Order of Montesa	Catholic military order
Order of Dobrzyń	—
Sisters of Providence	Catholic religious congregation
Order of Calatrava	—
Order of Saint Thomas of Acre	religious order
Capuchin	—
Priests of the Sacred Heart	religious congregation of priests and brothers
Dehonians	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Sisters of Loreto	Catholic religious congregation
Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy	—
Mercedarian Order	—
Premonstratensians	Roman Catholic religious order
Reguliers	—
Chanoines réguliers	ordre religieux catholique
Marianist	Roman Catholic religious institute
Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit at Jasna Góra	—