User:HeartofaDog/Orders

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Abbeys; abbots/abbesses Priories; priors/prioresses Houses
Benedictine monks and nuns Benedictine monks and nuns Abbeys or priories
Camaldolese (a few) Camaldolese Abbeys (rarely); priories; hermitages
Cluniacs (rarely) Cluniacs (mostly)[1] Abbeys (very rarely); priories
Cistercian monks and nuns Cistercian monks and nuns Abbeys or priories; granges
Augustinian canons and canonesses (occasionally) Augustinian canons and canonesses (mostly) Abbeys or priories
Premonstratensian canons and nuns Premonstratensian canons and nuns Abbeys or priories
- Carthusian monks Priories; charterhouses
- Franciscan friars[2] and nuns[3] Friaries; priories
- Dominican friars and nuns Priories
- Carmelite friars and nuns Priories; carmels
- Other friars and nuns Priories
  1. ^ most Cluniac houses were priories of the mother house at Cluny, for greater centralisation of power
  2. ^ Minorites = Franciscans
  3. ^ Poor Clares = Franciscan nuns

[edit] Notes:

  • Military orders: Commanderies or preceptories, and granges
  • Hospital orders: well, hospitals, you would think, but possibly also preceptories
  • Teaching orders: colleges (?) - at any rate, that's what the Jesuits seem to have
  • Hermits = hermitages
  1. ^ most Cluniac houses were priories of the mother house at Cluny, for greater centralisation of power
  2. ^ Minorites = Franciscans
  3. ^ Poor Clares = Franciscan nuns