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The Order of the Visitation was founded in 1610 by Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France.At first, the founder had not a religious order in mind; he wished to form a congregation without external vows, where the cloister should be observed only during the year of novitiate, after which the sisters should be free to go out by turns to visit the sick and poor.
8 September – the barons swear allegiance to Matilda as the true heir of Henry I of England. [2] Cistercians found Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. [1] Gilbertine Order of nuns founded by Gilbert of Sempringham in Lincolnshire, the only completely English religious order. [3] 1132. Benedictines found Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. [4] 1133
There were nearly 900 religious houses in England, around 260 for monks, 300 for regular canons, 142 nunneries and 183 friaries; some 12,000 people in total, 4,000 monks, 3,000 canons, 3,000 friars and 2,000 nuns. One adult man in fifty was in religious orders in a country of two and one half million.
In 2010, for the first time in the history of the Church of England, more women than men were ordained as priests (290 women and 273 men), [87] but in the next two years, ordinations of men again exceeded those of women. [88] In July 2005, the synod voted to "set in train" the process of allowing the consecration of women as bishops.
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Elizabeth Barton ('Nun of Kent') executed 1534, November Act of Supremacy, Treason Act, Act of First Fruits and Tenths: 1535 Henry adds "of the Church of England in Earth, under Jesus Christ, Supreme Head" to his royal style. Henry proclaims himself, not the Pope, to be the head of the Church of England 1535
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