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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

independent religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contemporary male order), an order for nuns known as the Order of Saint...

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

became 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...

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

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

operate under the ethos of the Roman Catholic Church, classified by the religious order to which they belong. Good Counsel College - New Ross St Augustine's...

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...

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

refer to: Soldiers of the Crusades Miles Christi (Religious Order), a multinational Catholic religious order founded in Argentina in 1994 Miles Christianus...

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...

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...

The Order of Saint Augustine (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Sancti Augustini), abbreviated OSA, is a mendicant religious order of the Catholic Church. It was founded...

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

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...

associated Third Order, often wearing a different habit or the standard woman's attire of the period. In general, when a woman enters a religious order or monastery...

formally known as the Order of the Most Holy Saviour (Latin: Ordo Sanctissimi Salvatoris; abbreviated OSsS), is a monastic religious order of the Catholic Church...