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Encyclopedia > Institute of Consecrated Life

An Institute of Consecrated Life is a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church, whose members profess the religious vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. This type of orgainization is defined in the Code of Canon Law under canons 573-709. Catholic religious orders are organizations of laity and/orclergy in the Roman Catholic Church who live under a common rule. ... The Roman Catholic Church (commonly known as the Catholic Church) is the Christian Church which is led by the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that it is the one holy catholic and apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ. ... In Western culture, canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. ...


This kind of society has a stable community life.


A community needs the written approval of a Bishop to operate within his diocese, and a diocesan Bishop can erect an Institute of Consecrated Life in his own territory, with consultation with the Apostolic See. For other uses, see Bishop (disambiguation). ... This is an alphabetical list of Roman Catholic dioceses. ... In the several centuries following the founding of Christianity, five particular cities and centers of Christianity were considered to be the Apostolic Sees. ...


These societies are regulated by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae Consecratae et Societatibus Vitae Apostolicae) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for everything which concerns institutes of consecrated life (orders and religious congregations, both of men and of women, secular institutes) and...


Institutes of Consecrated Life

The Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem is a clerical institute of consecrated life in the Catholic Church, founded in 2002 in the Diocese of La Crosse, and currently located in Chesterfield, Missouri, in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. ... Seal of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

External link

  • Code of Canon Law regulating Institutes of Consecrated Life


 

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