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  2. Holy orders - Wikipedia

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    The sequence in which holy orders are received are: minor orders, deacon, priest, bishop. For Catholics, it is typical in the years of seminary training that a man will be ordained to the diaconate, which Catholics since the Second Vatican Council sometimes call the "transitional diaconate" to distinguish men bound for priesthood from permanent ...

  3. Holy orders in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    In the phrase "holy orders", the word "holy" means "set apart for a sacred purpose". The word "order" designates an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ordination means legal incorporation into an order. In context, therefore, a group with a hierarchical structure that is set apart for ministry in the Church.

  4. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    These orders were confederations of independent abbeys and priories, who were unified through a loose structure of leadership and oversight. Later the mendicant orders such as the Carmelites, the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Preachers, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and the Order of Saint Augustine formed. These Mendicant orders did ...

  5. Military order (religious society) - Wikipedia

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    A military order (Latin: militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of Saint James, the Order of Calatrava, and the Teutonic Knights.

  6. Major orders - Wikipedia

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    The great or Holy Orders are Sub-deaconship, Deaconship and Priesthood; the lesser or Minor Orders are Porter, Reader, Exorcist, and Acolyte. [1] The Catechism of the Council of Trent thus repeats what is stated in chapter II of that Council's Decree on the Sacrament of Order, using the word "priest" to refer both to bishops and to presbyters. [2]

  7. Category:Catholic orders and societies - Wikipedia

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    Servants of the Holy Family; Sisters for Christian Community; Sisters Hospitaller of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Sisters of Notre Dame of Coesfeld; Society of African Missions; Society of Saint Paul; Society of St Peter (Congrégation de Saint-Pierre) Society of St. Charles Borromeo; Sodalitium Christianae Vitae; Sodality of Our Lady; Sons of ...

  8. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The church teaches that a woman's impediment to ordination is diriment, of divine law, public, absolute, and permanent because Jesus instituted ordination [39] by ordaining the twelve apostles, [38] since holy orders is a manifestation of Jesus' calling of the apostles. [38]

  9. Religious order - Wikipedia

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    A religious order is a subgroup within a larger confessional community with a distinctive high-religiosity lifestyle and clear membership. Religious orders often trace their lineage from revered teachers, venerate their founders, and have a document describing their lifestyle called a rule of life. Such orders exist in many of the world's ...