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| x Brotherhood of the Ascended Christ |
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The Brotherhood of the Ascended Christ (BAC) is an Anglican religious order of the Church of North India, and is based in Delhi, India. Founded in 1877, the order was founded with a mission to serve the poor and underprivileged. In 1975, the Delhi...
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| x Order of Saint Benedict |
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The Order of St. Benedict (Latin name: Ordo Sancti Benedicti) is a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of St. Benedict. Within the order, each individual community (which may be a monastery, a...
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| x Community of the Resurrection |
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The Community of the Resurrection (CR) is an Anglican religious community for men in England. It is based in Mirfield, West Yorkshire and has 22 members as of March 2012. The community reflects Anglicanism in its broad nature and is strongly engaged...
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| x Little Brothers of Francis |
The 19th and 20th century has seen the creation of a number of religious orders in the Anglican Church. One late addition to Anglican religious life is the Little Brothers of Francis, a contemplative order of Franciscan friars within the Anglican...
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| x Melanesian Brotherhood |
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The Melanesian Brotherhood is an Anglican religious community of men in simple vows based primarily in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea.
The Melanesian Brotherhood was formed in 1925 by Ini Kopuria, a policeman from Maravovo,...
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| x Oratory of the Good Shepherd |
The Oratory of the Good Shepherd (OGS) is a dispersed international community of Anglicans, ordained and lay, bound by a common rule of celibate chastity, responsible spending, and direction of life.The OGS Rule calls members of the Oratory to daily...
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| x Order of the Holy Cross |
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The Order of the Holy Cross is an international Anglican monastic Order that follows the Rule of St. Benedict.
The Order was founded in 1884 by the Rev. James Otis Sargent Huntington, an Episcopal priest, in New York City. The Order moved to...
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| x Society of Saint Francis |
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The Society of Saint Francis is a Franciscan religious order within the Anglican Communion.
The Society of Saint Francis comprises: The Brothers of the First Order; The Sisters of the First Order; The Sisters of the Second Order; The Brothers and...
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| x Society of St. John the Evangelist |
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The Society of St John the Evangelist (SSJE) is an Anglican religious order for men. The members live under a rule of life and, at profession, make monastic vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience. The SSJE was founded in 1866 at Cowley, Oxford,...
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| x Society of St. Paul |
The Society of St. Paul (SSP) is an Anglican monastic community in the United States. Founded in 1958, it was the first community for men recognised by the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It describes its mission as one of...
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| x Chama Cha Mariamu Mtakatifu |
The Chama cha Mariamu Mtakatifu (Community of St. Mary of Nazareth and Calvary), (CMM) is an Anglican religious order based in the district of Masasi, Tanzania. It was established in 1946 and is administered by the Anglican Church of Tanzania. Apart...
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| x Chita che Zita Rinoyera |
The Chita che Zita Rinoyera (Community of the Holy Name), CZR, is an Anglican religious order of women headquartered in Mutare, Zimbabwe in the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa. The community was established in 1935 by the English...
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| x Christa Sevika Sangha |
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The Christa Sevika Sangha (Handmaids of Christ), CSS, is an Anglican religious order founded in 1970, and based in Jobarpar, Bangladesh. It is a part of the Anglican Church of Bangladesh, and was originally attached to the Sisterhood of the Epiphany...
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| x Community of All Hallows |
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The Community of All Hallows (CAH) is an Anglican religious order based in Ditchingham, near Bungay, Suffolk, under the jurisdiction of the Church of England. The religious Sisters lead an active life of prayer and service, providing hospitality and...
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| x Community of Christ the King |
The Community of Christ the King (CCK) is an Anglican religious order of Benedictine nuns, based in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1993, this enclosed and contemplative order is under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church of Australia...
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| x Community of Nazareth |
The Community of Nazareth (CN) is an Anglican religious order founded in 1936. It was established in Tokyo by the English Sisterhood of the Epiphany. It is now under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in Japan, the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, and...
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| x Community of St. Andrew |
The Community of St. Andrew (CSA) is an Anglican religious order of professed sisters in holy orders or who otherwise serve in diaconal ministry. The community was founded in 1861 by Elizabeth Ferard, with the encouragement of Bishop Tait of London...
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| x Community of St. Clare |
The Community of St. Clare (OSC) is a Franciscan Anglican religious order of nuns. The community, founded in 1950 and based in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, is one of several associated with the Society of Saint Francis. The community is an enclosed...
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| x Community of St. Francis |
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The Community of St. Francis (CSF) is a Franciscan Anglican religious order of sisters founded in 1905, and is the oldest surviving Anglican Franciscan religious community. It was begun by Sr Rosina Eleanor Rice, who left another Anglican religious...
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| x Community of St John Baptist |
The Community of St. John Baptist (CSJB), also known as the Sisters of Mercy, or formerly Clewer Sisters, is an Anglican religious order of Augustinian nuns.
The Community was founded in England in 1852 by Harriet Monsell (the first Superior), a...
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| x Community of St. John the Divine |
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The Community of St. John the Divine (CSJD) is an Anglican religious order of nuns founded in London in 1848. The community, now based in Alum Rock, Birmingham, England, was originally a nursing order, and continues to be involved in areas of health...
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| x Community of St. John the Evangelist |
The Community of St. John the Evangelist (CSJE) is an Anglican religious order of nuns of the Church of Ireland. Founded in 1912, the order is located in Dublin, and administers their house as a nursing and residential care home.
For some years, the...
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| x Community of St. Laurence |
The Community of St. Laurence (CSL) is an Anglican religious order of nuns. Established in 1874, the order's house is located in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England. The community was originally established to provide pastoral care, but now focuses...
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| x Community of St. Mary |
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The Community of St. Mary (CSM) is an Anglican religious order of nuns with three independent houses located in Greenwich, New York, Sewanee, Tennessee, and Mukwonago, Wisconsin. The oldest indigenous Anglican order in the United States, it was...
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| x Order of Saint Benedict (Anglican) |
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There are a number of Benedictine Anglican religious orders, some of them using the name Order of St. Benedict (OSB). Just like their Roman Catholic counterparts, each abbey / priory / convent is independent of each other. The vows are not made to...
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| x Community of St. Mary the Virgin |
The Community of St Mary the Virgin (CSMV) is an Anglican religious order founded in 1848 by the vicar of Wantage, William John Butler.
Its current Superior is the Reverend Mother Winsome CSMV, a former Baptist Christian, who converted to...
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| x Community of the Companions of Jesus the Good Shepherd |
The Community of the Companions of Jesus the Good Shepherd (CJGS) is an Anglican religious order founded in 1920, part of the Church of England. It is currently based near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
Originally, the sisters were teachers living alone...
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| x Community of the Holy Cross |
The Community of the Holy Cross is an Anglican religious order founded in 1857 by Elizabeth Neale (sister of John Mason Neale), at the invitation of Fr. Charles Fuge Lowder, to work with the poor around St Peter's London Docks. The Community later...
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| x Community of the Sisters of Melanesia |
The Community of the Sisters of Melanesia, more usually called The Sisters of Melanesia, is the third order for women to be established in the Church of Melanesia, which is the Anglican Church of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
The first women's order...
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| x Community of the Sisters of the Church |
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The Community of the Sister of the Church is a religious order of women in various Anglican provinces who live the vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. The order was founded by Mother Emily Ayckbowm in 1870 as the Church Extension...
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| x Community of the Sisters of the Love of God |
The Community of the Sisters of the Love of God is a contemplative community of women founded in 1906 within the Anglican Church, to witness to the priority of God, and to respond to the love of God for us, reflected in our love for God. Its members...
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| x Community of the Transfiguration |
The Community of the Transfiguration is an Anglican (Episcopalian) religious community of women founded by Mother Eva Mary, the former Eva Lee Matthews, in 1898.
At that time, Christians of all persuasions were beginning to rediscover the mystery of...
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| x Malling Abbey |
St. Mary’s Abbey (Malling Abbey) is an abbey of Anglican Benedictine nuns, located at West Malling, Kent, England.
The manor of West Malling was given by King Edmund to Burhic, Bishop of Rochester in 946. The land was lost to the church in the...
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| x Sisterhood of St. John the Divine |
The Sisterhood of St. John the Divine is a religious community of nuns in the Anglican Church of Canada.
Founded in Toronto in 1884 by Mother Hannah Grier Coome, the order ministers at St. John's Rehab Hospital and is known for its members'...
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| x Sisters of Charity |
The Sisters of Charity (SC) is an Anglican religious order following the Rule of St. Vincent de Paul, and so committed to the service of those in need. From their mission house in Plymouth, England, the sisters are involved in parish and mission...
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| x Society of Saint Margaret |
The Society of Saint Margaret (SSM) is an order of women in the Anglican Church.
The Sisters of St Margaret were founded in 1855 by Dr John Mason Neale at Rotherfield, England. As their numbers increased, they moved into their first convent, Saint...
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| x Society of the Holy Cross |
The Society of the Holy Cross is an order of women religious (or nuns) in the Anglican Church of Korea. It is not to be confused with the Society of the Holy Cross, SSC (Societas Sanctae Crucis), which is an international order of Anglo-Catholic...
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| x Society of the Sacred Advent |
The Society of the Sacred Advent is an Anglican religious order founded at Brisbane, Australia, in 1892 by Caroline Grace Millicent Short (1839–1922), and still active in that city.
Known as Sister Caroline Amy and, later, Mother Caroline, Caroline...
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| x Society of the Sacred Cross |
The Society of the Sacred Cross is an Anglican religious order founded in Chichester, Sussex, in 1910. It established a community at Tymawr, Lydart, Monmouthshire, in 1923 with guidance from Fr G. Northcott of the Community of the Resurrection. The...
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| x Chita che Zvipo Zve Moto |
The Chita che Zvipo Zve Moto (Community of the Gifts of the Holy Fire), CZM, is an Anglican religious order of nuns and friars based in Gokwe Centre, Zimbabwe. Founded in 1977, the order is a part of the Anglican Church of the Province of Central...
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| x Community of the Glorious Ascension |
The Community of the Glorious Ascension is an Anglican monastic community in the United Kingdom, co-founded in 1960 by twin brothers Michael Ball and Peter Ball who both later became bishops. It was founded in Stratford Park in Stroud,...
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| x Order of Julian of Norwich |
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The Order of Julian of Norwich is a contemplative community of monks and nuns in the Episcopal Church. It was founded in Connecticut in 1985, but is now located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. They are semi-enclosed, and the focus of their life together is...
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| x Society of the Sacred Mission |
The Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM) is an Anglican religious order founded in 1893 by Father Herbert Kelly, envisaged such that "members of the Society share a common life of prayer and fellowship in a variety of educational, pastoral and...
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| x Anglican Order of Preachers |
The Anglican Order of Preachers is an Anglican religious order commonly referred to as "Dominicans". The order was founded in the late 1990s by the Reverend Jeffery Mackey O.P.A. in the United States. It includes both men and women, married and...
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| x Brotherhood of Saint Gregory |
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The Brotherhood of Saint Gregory is a community of friars within the Anglican communion. Its members, known as Gregorians, include clergy and laymen.
As a Christian Community of the Episcopal Church, it is open to both married and unmarried men. Its...
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| x Community of the Gospel |
The Community of the Gospel is a non-residential, dispersed Christian Community formed under the Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the Anglican Communion, whose members apply basic monastic principles to everyday...
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| x Community of St. Denys |
The Community of St. Denys (CSD) is an Anglican religious order of nuns founded in 1879, under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Salisbury of the Church of England. The community was originally established to engage in domestic and foreign...
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| x Company of Mission Priests |
The Company of Mission Priests (CMP) is a "dispersed community" of male priests of the Anglican Communion, who want to consecrate themselves wholly to the church's mission, free from the attachments of marriage and family. CMP was founded in 1940 by...
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| x Azeemia |
The Silsila-e-Azeemia (Azeemia Order), named after Syed Muhammad Azeem Barkhiya, is a Sufi order founded in Pakistan in 1960 by Qalander Ba Ba Auliya. It is currently headed by Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi.
The aim of Silsila Azeemia is to promote the...
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| x Ba'Alawi |
The Ba'Alawi tariqa (Arabic: طريقة آل باعلوي), also known as the Tariqa Alawiyya is a Sufi order centered in Hadhramawt, Yemen, but now spread across the Indian Ocean rim along with the Hadhrami diaspora. The order is closely tied to the Ba'Alawi...
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| x Badawiyyah |
The Badawiyyah, Sufi tarika, was founded in the thirteenth century in Egypt by Ahmad al-Badawi (1199-1276). As a tarika, the Badawiyyah lacks any distinct doctrines. It has produced no major teachers or writers; instead it is a popular cult whose...
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The Bektashi Order (Turkish: Bektaşi Tarikatı), or the ideology of Bektashism (Albanian: Bektashizmi or Bektashizma; Turkish: Bektaşilik), is a Sufi order (tariqat) founded in the 13th century by the Persian saint Haji Bektash Veli. The order is...
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| x Chishti Order |
The Chishtī Order (Persian: چشتی - Čištī) is a Sufi order within the mystic branches of Islam which was founded in Chisht, a small town near Herat, Afghanistan about 930 CE. The Chishti Order is known for its emphasis on love, tolerance, and...
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| x Darqawa |
The Darqawiyya or Darqawa Sufi order was a revivalist branch of the Shadhiliyah brotherhood. The Darqawa comprised the followers of Sheikh Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760–1823). The movement, which became one of the leading orders (tariqa) in...
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| x Galibi Order |
The Galibi Order of Sufism is a descendant of the Qadiriyyah-Rufai orders – the integration of the earliest and the most popular orders established in Islam. It has been called as Qadiri-Rufai order until the order branched off its ancestor school...
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| x Khalwati order |
The Khalwati order (also known as Khalwatiyya, Khalwatiya, or Halveti, as it is known in Turkey) is an Islamic Sufi brotherhood (tariqa). Along with the Naqshbandi, Qadiri and Shadhili orders, it is among the most famous Sufi orders. The order takes...
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| x Hurufism |
Hurufism (Arabic: حروفية hurufiyya, adjective form hurufi literal meaning "letters" [of the alphabet]) was a mystical kabbalistic Sufi doctrine, which spread in areas of western Persia, Anatolia and Azerbaijan in later 14th - early 15th century....
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| x Idrisiyya |
The Idrisiyya is a Sufi order founded by Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Fasi (1760-1837). Its adherents are widespread throughout North Africa, from where it has spread to Saudi Arabia and Southeast Asia. A branch of this order was introduced in Singapore by...
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Ismāʿīlism (Arabic: الإسماعيليون al-Ismāʿīliyyūn; Persian: اسماعیلیانEsmāʿiliyān; Urdu: إسماعیلی Ismāʿīlī) is the second largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers (Ithnāʿashariyya). The Ismāʿīlī get their name from their acceptance of...
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The Jerrahi (Turkish: Cerrahiyye, Cerrahilik) are a Sufi tariqah (order) derived from the Halveti order. Their founder was Muhammad Nureddin al-Jerrahi, who lived in Istanbul and is buried at the site of his tekke in Karagumruk - Istanbul. During...
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