A religious order is a subgroup within a larger confessional community with a distinctive high-religiosity lifestyle and clear membership. Religious orders...

Church, a religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious institute...

Anglican religious orders are communities of men or women (or in some cases mixed communities of men and women) in the Anglican Communion who live under...

A military order (Latin: militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights...

The reform of a religious order is the return of the order from a mitigated or relaxed observance to the rigour of its primitive rule. Example include...

The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the...

candidates for the order, doctors or craftsmen). The intended purpose for such enclosure is to prevent distraction from prayer and the religious life and to...

Paulanerorden), are a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The order soon spread to France, Germany...

A religious habit is a distinctive set of religious clothing worn by members of a religious order. Traditionally some plain garb recognizable as a religious...

the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its...

and of Malta, and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric...

who live in community and follow a rule are called "Third order religious". Various religious congregations are tertiaries. Members who, without living...

new religious order. The original Rule of Saint Francis approved by the Pope did not allow ownership of property, requiring members of the order to beg...

became a religious from an early age, but chose to live as a hermit. They retained a close relationship until her death. Despite being called an order, the...

confronting religious extremism or tensions, have a vested interest in backing peaceful and moderate religious movements like the Bektashi Order. He suggested...

celebration Religious order, a community or organization set apart from the general society for devotion to a religious practice Religious order (Catholic)...

a reformist movement within the Benedictine monastic order that sought to strengthen religious devotion and charity for the poor. Earlier in the 11th...

Catholic religious orders, the term second order refers to those communities of contemplative cloistered nuns which are a part of the religious orders that...

and high priestess of the Religious Order of Witchcraft, which was the first coven to be chartered as an official religious organization in the state...

The Order of Santiago (/ˌsɒntiˈɑːɡoʊ/; Spanish: Orden de Santiago [sanˈtjaɣo]) is a religious and military order founded in the 12th century. It owes its...

The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum; postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within...

Miles Christi ('Soldier of Christ', postnominal MC) is a clerical religious order in the Catholic Church founded in the Archdiocese of La Plata, Argentina...

The term third order signifies, in general, lay members of Christian religious orders, who do not necessarily live in a religious community such as a monastery...

OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that branched...

Penance, the Order is open to any Catholic, in good standing, at least 18 years in age, not bound by religious vows to another religious order and is made...

contribute to the life of a religious order. “In early Western monasticism, there was no distinction between lay and choir religious. The majority of St. Benedict's...

formally known as the Order of Saint Jerome (Latin: Ordo Sancti Hieronymi; abbreviated OSH), is a Catholic cloistered religious order and a common name for...

to one's self-concept Religious intentional community, an intentional community with a shared religious identity Religious order, a group of people who...

Patriarch of Jerusalem, and proposed creating a monastic Catholic religious order for the protection of these pilgrims. King Baldwin and Patriarch Warmund...

position of the Catholic Church is that the Pope is the head of every religious order, and thus he can grant admission to these orders without the permission...