Religious Orders and Congregations

Between 1829 and 1965 the proliferation of male and female religious houses in England and Wales was so great that little more than basic recognition can be offered here.

The table shows the increase in the number of houses (not subjects) and the list contains most (not all) of their titles.

Service to every aspect of Catholic belief and practice is represented: teaching; preaching, care of the poor, the sick, the homeless and the mentally ill; orphanage and industrial schools, reformatories and penitentiaries, printing presses and manufacturers of church requisites, management of libraries and cemeteries, foreign missions and their organisation, as well as communities whose sole object was to pray for the living and/or the dead, twenty-four hours a day.

PRIESTS

African Missions (Society of); Assumptionists; Augustinians; Augustinian Recollects; Benedictines; Blessed Sacrament Fathers; Canons Regular of the Lateran; Canons Regular of Premonstre; Carmelites (calced and discalced); Carthusians; Cistercians; Claretians; Consolata Fathers; Divine Word Fathers; Dominicans; Fathers of Charity; Franciscans (a) Conventuals, (b) Friars Minor (c) Capuchins; Fransalians; Holy Ghost Fathers; Jesuits; Josephites; Marists; Hill Missionaries; Montfort Fathers; Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Oblates of St. Charles; Opus Dei; Oratorians; Pallottine Fathers; Passionists; Picpus Fathers; Redemptorists; Sacred Heart Fathers; Sacred Heart Missionaries; Salesians; Salvatorians; Servants of the Paraclete; Servites; Sons of Divine Providence; Verona Fathers; Vincentians (Congregation of the Mission); White Fathers.

BROTHERS

Alexians; Brothers of Charity; Brothers of St. Gabriel; Christian Brothers of Ireland; Christian Instruction (Brothers of); De La Salle Brothers; Hospitallers of St. John of God; Little Brothers of Jesus; Marists; Mercy (Brothers of); Presentation Brothers; Sacred Heart Brothers; Xaverian Brothers.

NUNS

Adoration Reparatrice; Adorers of the Sacred Heart; Augustinians; Benedictines; Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration; Bernardines;, Brigittines; Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre; Canonesses Regular of St,. Augustine; Capianio Sisters; Cistercians; Columban Sisters; Congregation of St.Clotilde; Consolata Sisters; Dames de la Mere de Dieu (Tournai); Daughters of the Cross; Daughters of the Heart of Mary; Daughters of the Holy Ghost; Daughters of St. Paul; Daughters of Sion; Daughters of Wisdom (La Sagesse); Dominicans; Faithful Companions of Jesus; Franciscan Missionaries of Mary; Franciscan Sisters of: Calais, of Littlehampton, of Malta, of Mill Hill, of the Immaculate Conception, of St. Joseph; Franciscan Minoresses; Good Shepherd Sisters; Grail (The Women of Nazareth); Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament; Helpers of the Holy Souls; Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Institute of Perpetual Adoration (Brussels); Institute of St. Teresa; Irish Sisters of Charity; Little Company of Mary; Sisters of the Assumption; Little Sisters of Jesus; Little Sisters of the Poor; Medical Mission Sisters; Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver; Missionary Sisters of Verona; Opus Dei; Pallottine Missionary Sisters; Picpus Sisters; Pious Disciples of the Divine Master; Poor Clares; Poor Clares (Colettines); Poor Clares (Urbanists); Poor Handmaids of Jesus; Poor Servants of the Mother of God; Poor Servants of Nazareth; Presentation Sisters; Religious of Our Lady of the Retreat in the Cenacle; Salesians; Salvatorians; Servants of the Holy Ghost; Servants of Mary Immaculate; Servites; Sisters of- the Assumption, the Blessed Sacrament, Bon Secours, Charity of Jesus and Mary, of St.- Louis, of St. Paul, of St. Vincent de Paul, the Cross and Passion, the Holy Child Jesus, the Holy Cross, the Holy Family, the Holy Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, La Retraite (Angers), the Little Ones, Loreto, Jesus Crucified, Notre Dame (d'Evron), Notre Dame (Namur), Notre Dame (Rome), Our Lady of Sion, St. Anne, St. Brigid, St. John of God, St. Joseph, St. Martha, St. Martin of Tours, Mary and Joseph, Mercy, Mercy of the Holy Cross, Poor Child Jesus, Providence, the Resurrection, the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the Sacred Heart of Mary, the Temple, the Visitation; Society of the Holy Child Jesus; Society of Marie Reparatrice; Ursulines: of Jesus, of the Roman Union, of Thurles; Vincentians; White Sisters. 

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