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The Order is headquartered in the Vatican City State. Several military religious orders were established at the time of, and since, the Crusades. Of these, only the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the Order of Malta are recognised by the Holy See. [9] The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a sovereign order of chivalry. The Order and the Holy ...
Pages in category "Orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the phrase "holy orders", the word "holy" means "set apart for a sacred purpose". The word "order" designates an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ordination means legal incorporation into an order. In context, therefore, a group with a hierarchical structure that is set apart for ministry in the Church.
These orders were confederations of independent abbeys and priories, who were unified through a loose structure of leadership and oversight. Later the mendicant orders such as the Carmelites, the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Preachers, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and the Order of Saint Augustine formed. These Mendicant orders did ...
Servants of the Holy Family; Sisters for Christian Community; Sisters Hospitaller of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Sisters of Notre Dame of Coesfeld; Society of African Missions; Society of Saint Paul; Society of St Peter (Congrégation de Saint-Pierre) Society of St. Charles Borromeo; Sodalitium Christianae Vitae; Sodality of Our Lady; Sons of ...
Holy Communion – see: Eucharist (above) Holy Orders; Holy See – the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome (who is commonly known as the Pope), and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church; Holy water font (or stoup) (church) Holy water stoup (home) – see: Home stoup (below ...
The sequence in which holy orders are received are: minor orders, deacon, priest, bishop. For Catholics, it is typical in the years of seminary training that a man will be ordained to the diaconate, which Catholics since the Second Vatican Council sometimes call the "transitional diaconate" to distinguish men bound for priesthood from permanent ...
Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre; Catholic sisters and nuns in Canada; Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States; Clerics of Saint Viator; Sisters of the Company of Mary, Our Lady; Congregation of Christian Brothers; Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand; Congregation of Divine Providence, Mainz; Congregation of Jesus