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In the latter 20th century three Catholic women were declared Doctors of the Church: the 16th-century Spanish mystic, St Teresa of Ávila (who became the first female Doctor of the Church in 1970 [84]); [85] the 14th-century Italian mystic St Catherine of Siena [86] and the 19th-century French nun St Thérèse de Lisieux (called Doctor Amoris ...
In Christianity, nuns are found in the Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican and some Presbyterian traditions, as well as other Christian denominations. [1] In the Buddhist tradition, female monastics are known as Bhikkhuni , and take several additional vows compared to male monastics ( bhikkhus ).
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
Enclosed religious orders of men include monks following the Rule of Saint Benedict, namely the Benedictine, the Cistercian, and the Trappist orders, but also monks of the Carthusians, Hieronymites, along with the male and female members of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno, while enclosed ...
McGuinness, Margaret M. Neighbors and Missionaries: A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine (Fordham Univ Press, 2012) online; Mulderry, Darra D. Educating 'Sister Lucy': The Experiential Sources of the Movement to Improve Higher Education for Catholic Teaching Sisters, 1949-1964." U.S. Catholic Historian (2015) 33#1 pp. 55-79.
Doctor of the Church (Latin: doctor "teacher"), also referred to as Doctor of the Universal Church (Latin: Doctor Ecclesiae Universalis), is a title given by the Catholic Church to saints recognized as having made a significant contribution to theology or doctrine through their research, study, or writing.
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 ...
Christian nuns by religious denomination. Subcategories. ... Catholic religious sisters and nuns (4 C, 2 P) E. Eastern Orthodox nuns (6 C, 2 P) L. Lutheran nuns (7 C ...