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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)
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 ...
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.
Many Catholic women, both lay and in religious orders, have become influential mystics or theologians – with four women now recognised as Doctors of the Church: the Carmelites have produced two such women, the Spanish mystic Saint Teresa of Avila and French author Saint Therese of Lisieux; while Catherine of Siena was an Italian Dominican and ...
Angelina of Marsciano is generally credited with the founding of the Third Order Regular for women around 1395, but the Third Order Regular was not made official until Pope Nicholas V authorized it. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Unlike the Second Order of the Franciscan movement, the Poor Clare nuns , they were not an enclosed religious order , [ 12 ] and ...
Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men and ...
Catholic Womens Fraternal of Texas - Founded on September 16, 1894, by Czech Catholic women in the Yoakum and Hallettsville area of Texas. [139] Incorporated in 1927. Headquartered in Austin. Had 24,000 in 1972 and 25,000 in 1977. [140] Membership is now open to people of both genders, irrespective of religion or ethnic background.
The Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota is a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women. The congregation was founded in 1877 by Mother Mary Alfred Moes in the Diocese of St. Paul of Minnesota. The motherhouse, which is in Rochester, Minnesota, is called Assisi Heights.
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