Home›Catholic Religious Orders and Congregations›All Catholic Religious Orders and CongregationsBrowse ByAll Catholic Religious Orders and CongregationsGathers the institutes of consecrated life recognized within the Catholic Church: monastic orders following an approved rule, mendicant orders, clerks regular, and the modern apostolic congregations of priests, brothers and sisters, together with confraternities and secular institutes operating under Catholic canon law. A member belongs here for holding papal or diocesan approval, or for tracing its rule and governance to the Catholic tradition, whether Roman or Eastern Catholic. It is held apart from the Anglican communities that adopted similar monastic forms after the Reformation, from the Orthodox monastic communities of the Eastern and Oriental churches, and from the medieval military and chivalric orders, which combined a religious rule with an armed mission and are grouped separately.FactsAll Catholic Religious Orders and CongregationsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedReligious Orders 1All Catholic Religious Orders and CongregationsFilter Results73 entriesFounded ByAllPhilip Neri (1)Rooted InAllRoman Catholicism (60)Originated InAllAlgeria (1)Canada (5)France (20)Germany (1)Guatemala (1)Ireland (1)Italy (10)Netherlands (1)Portugal (1)Spain (3)United States (5)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (72)Suppressed, then revived (1)Origin Period Start YearAll910 (1)1012 (1)1180 (1)1182 (1)1209 (1)1218 (1)1233 (1)1244 (1)1300 (1)1307 (1)1435 (1)1484 (1)1524 (1)1530 (1)1575 (1)1592 (1)1593 (1)1597 (1)1610 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