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  2. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    Religious orders in the Annuario Pontificio Saint Bruno of Cologne, founder of the Order of Carthusians, as painted by Nicolas Mignard A genealogical tree of the Order of the Immaculate Conception with the foundress, Saint Beatrice of Silva, and other remarkable Conceptionist nuns Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata was the foundress of the Order ...

  3. Category : Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order

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    Pages in category "Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See - Wikipedia

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    The orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See include titles, chivalric orders, distinctions and medals honoured by the Holy See, with the Pope as the fount of honour, for deeds and merits of their recipients to the benefit of the Holy See, the Catholic Church, or their respective communities, societies, nations and the world at large.

  5. Enclosed religious orders - Wikipedia

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    Enclosed religious orders are religious orders whose members strictly separate themselves from the affairs of the external world. The term cloistered is synonymous with enclosed . In the Catholic Church , enclosure is regulated by the code of canon law , either the Latin code or the Oriental code , and also by the constitutions of the specific ...

  6. Category:Catholic female orders and societies - Wikipedia

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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)

  7. Nun - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, nuns are members of enclosed religious orders and take solemn religious vows, while sisters do not live in the papal enclosure and formerly took vows called "simple vows". [ 4 ] As monastics , nuns living within an enclosure historically commit to recitation of the full Divine Office throughout the day in church, usually in a ...

  8. Hierarchy of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The honorific "pope" was from the early 3rd century used for any bishop in the West, and is known in Greek as far back as Homer's Odyssey (6:57). In the East, "pope" is still a common form of address for clergy in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, and is the style of the bishop of Alexandria.

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

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    A Fitting Response: The History of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis (2 vol. 1992) Quinonez, Lora, and Mary Daniel Turner. The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters (1993) excerpt and text search; Schneider, Mary L. "American Sisters and the Roots of Change: the 1950s." US Catholic Historian (1988): 55-72. JSTOR ...