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
O.M.I. surface form: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Roman Catholic religious congregation
OMI surface form: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa	Catholic religious congregation
Congregation of the Holy Ghost	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota	Roman Catholic religious institute
Colettine Poor Clares	religious order
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne	Catholic religious congregation
Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer	Catholic religious congregation
SFO surface form: Secular Franciscan Order	—
Carmelite Order	—
Missionaries of the Holy Spirit	Catholic religious congregation
Teresa surface form: Missionaries of Charity	Catholic religious congregation
Mawlawi Order	religious order
Adrian Dominican Sisters	Roman Catholic religious institute
Knights of St. Stephen	Catholic military order
Montréal Sulpicians	Roman Catholic religious community
Recollects	—
Sea Organization	religious order
Sea Org	religious order
RSHM surface form: Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary	religious congregation of pontifical right
R.S.H.M. surface form: Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary	Roman Catholic religious institute
Poor Ladies	religious order
Servite Order	—
Congregation of Holy Cross	Catholic religious congregation
Vincentian Fathers	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Teutonic Order	Catholic military order
pontificate of Clement V surface form: Knights Templar	Catholic military order
Thiene surface form: Theatines	—
De Lellis surface form: Order of the Ministers of the Sick	—
Ordo Clericorum Regularium	—
Order of the Recollects	—
Bene Tleilax	religious order
Antonine Order	—
Sisters of Saint Dominic of Caldwell	Roman Catholic religious institute
Good Shepherd Sisters	Catholic religious congregation
Order of Monte Vergine	—
Williamites	—
Maronite Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary	—
Daughters of Mary Immaculate	Catholic religious congregation
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word	Catholic religious congregation
Company of Mary	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Daughters of Wisdom	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Brothers of Saint Gabriel	Catholic religious congregation
Daughters of Mary Help of Christians	religious congregation of pontifical right
Congregatio Sancti Spiritus	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Holy Ghost Fathers	Roman Catholic religious congregation
Redemptoristine Nuns	—
Guzman surface form: Order of Preachers	—
OSA surface form: Order of Saint Augustine	Roman Catholic religious order
Dominican Sisters of Peace	Roman Catholic religious institute