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  2. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities. An exception is the Order of Saint Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of independent houses, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Franciscans - Wikipedia

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    The First Order or the Order of Friars Minor, or Seraphic Order [9] are commonly called simply the Franciscans. This order is a mendicant religious order of men, some of whom trace their origin to Francis of Assisi. [10] Their official Latin name is the Ordo Fratrum Minorum. [11]

  5. History of religion - Wikipedia

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    In order to better understand the origin and current diversity of religious belief systems throughout the world, recent studies have attempted to focus on historical interrelationships and diversification of all major organized religions, applying modern evolutionary philosophy to the comparative analysis of putative ideological groups. [9]

  6. 19th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United ...

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    The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday, 1985) (2nd edition, Notre Dame UP, 1992) extract. Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Parish: A History from 1850 to the Present (2 vol. Paulist, 1987) Dolan, Jay P. "Immigrants in the City: New York's Irish and German Catholics." Church History 41.3 ...

  7. Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The number of orders and sisters grew rapidly. In 1830 there were only 10 orders in the U.S, with under 500 sisters. By 1860 45 orders had been added and there were over 5,000 sisters. In 1830 there were only 20 Catholic female academies in the U.S., by 1860 there were 201. In 1830 there was one sister-founded hospital in the U.S..

  8. Category:Catholic orders and societies - Wikipedia

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    History of Catholic religious orders (13 C, 18 P) Organisation of Catholic religious orders (10 C, 42 P) A. Assumptionist Order (4 C) Augustinian Order (10 C, 16 P) B.

  9. Dechristianization of France during the French Revolution

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    Looting of a church during the Revolution, by Swebach-Desfontaines (c. 1793). The aim of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France during the French Revolution ranged from the appropriation by the government of the great landed estates and the large amounts of money held by the Catholic Church to the termination of Christian religious practice and of the religion ...