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Religious orders were founded by entrepreneurial women who saw a need and an opportunity, and were staffed by devout women from poor families. The number of Catholic nuns grew exponentially from about 900 in the year 1840, to a maximum of nearly 200,000 in 1965, falling to 56,000 in 2010.
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 ...
The Order of St. Helena was established in 1945 in Versailles, Kentucky, as a religious community for women within the Episcopal Church. It was formed by nine sisters who felt called to separate from the autonomous Order of St. Anne, which at the time operated Margaret Hall School for girls.
Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order (34 C, 2 P) Leaders of Catholic female orders and societies (1 C, 10 P) Monasteries of secular canonesses (6 P)
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is home to a large number of religious orders and congregations. Some of them arrived in the 19th century to serve various immigrant populations. As these groups became more assimilated, the congregations directed their efforts to various types of apostolates or other locations.
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 common rule of life. The members of religious orders take vows which often include the traditional monastic vows of poverty , chastity and obedience , or the ancient vow of stability, or ...
References are made within the earliest Christian communities to the role of women in positions of church leadership. Paul's letter to the Romans, written in the first century, commends Phoebe who is described as "deaconess of the church at Cenchreae" that she be received "in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and ...
It includes religious leaders that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American women religious leaders" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.