HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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a group of priests, monks, or nuns
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a group of missionaries
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a group of popes, priests, and nuns
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a group of popes and missionaries
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Detailed explanation-1: -A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder’s religious practice. It is usually composed of laypeople and, in some orders, clergy.
Detailed explanation-2: -holy order, any of several grades in the ordained ministry of some of the Christian churches, comprising at various times the major orders of bishop, priest, deacon, and subdeacon and the minor orders of porter (doorkeeper), lector, exorcist, and acolyte.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Franciscans, Jesuits, and Trappists are religious orders.
Detailed explanation-4: -Monastic orders are groups of men or women who dedicate themselves to God and live in an isolated community or alone.
Detailed explanation-5: -Abbey-a community of monks or nuns, ruled by an abbot or abbess. Usually founded by a monastic order.