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The Cluniac Order was a monastic community following the Rule of Saint Benedict, founded by William I of Aquitaine at the abbey of Cluny in the Maconnais region of France under a deed dated September 11, 909 or 910, and it survived until its dissolution in 1790. It became the center of the most important monastic order of the Middle Ages, with an influence that extended across much of Western Europe, acting as a major instrument of ecclesiastical reform in the eleventh century and a direct support of papal authority and the Gregorian Reform, opposing practices such as simony and clerical marriage. At its height the Cluniac network included more than 1,000 houses across ten provinces in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, England and Switzerland, with an estimated 9,000 to 12,000 monks bound through priories and abbeys to the central authority of the abbot of Cluny. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Kind of orderCatholic Religious Orders and Congregations 1 Who may joinLay and Ordained Together 2 Origins
Origin Period Belief
Defining Doctrinal PositionCatholic Apostolic Magisterial Authority 2 Practice
Liturgical Language Liturgical Language Organisation
OrdinationHoly Orders / Apostolic Succession 2 OrdinationVowed Religious Profession (not ordained) 2 Status
Status TodaySuppressed, then revived 2 Connections
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The Order of Cluny (or Cluniac order) was a monastic order of the Catholic Church following the Rule of Saint Benedict. It was founded in the 10th century and suppressed at the end of the 18
Originated In: France, Opening sentences of the entity description
The Cluniac Order was a monastic community following the Rule of Saint Benedict, founded by William I of Aquitaine at the abbey of Cluny in the Maconnais region of France under a deed dated September 11, 909 or 910, and it survived until its dissolution in 1790.
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