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- St.Mary's Abbey - Glencairn, Ireland - Glencairn Abbey are a community of monastic women belonging to the Cistercian Order. The only Cistercian abbey for women in Ireland.
- Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist - Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, Catholic Pontifical religious order of women, Meriden, Connecticut, dedicated to the Eucharist, a congregation of women religious living in community.
- Oblate Sisters of Providence - The OSP is the first Catholic women religious order established by women of African descent. Their primary mission is to teach and minister to black Catholics.
- Franciscan Sisters of Mary - Franciscan Sisters of Mary are women of vision, women of the Gospel, Franciscan women...sisters to all!
- Oblate Sisters of Providence - The first order started for and by African-American women. When Afro-Americans were still prevented from joining orders.
- The Place of Women in Buddhism - Covers: "The Pre-Buddhist Position of Women", "Women and the Buddha's Path", "The Secular Position of Women", "The Order of Bhikkhunis" and "Role of Women in Early Buddhism".
- Knighthood and Orders of Chivalry - Includes introduction to knighthood, medieval women and orders, general and order-specific historical information and an essay on the legitimacy of orders.
- Marist Missionary Sisters - A Catholic international missionary order, which is a part of the Society of Mary (which includes men and women religious as well as lay members). Live and work in 29 countries around the globe bearing witness to Jesus' good news of God's love for all.
- Franciscan Sisters of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois - A Congregation of vowed women in the Franciscan Order.
- School Sisters of Notre Dame - Chicago - The School Sisters of Notre Dame is an international Congregation of religious women who have committed their lives to God and God's work. We are willing to 'risk in faith' in order to bring the message of God's love to our world. Presently, there are 5,000 SSNDs who live and work in 34 countries around the world.
Wikipedia Articles
- Religious habit - A religious habit is a distinctive set of garments worn by members of a religious order. For instance, for some Roman Catholic or Anglican orders, it might comprise a tunic covered by a scapular and cowl, with a hood for men and a veil for women; in other orders it might be a distinctive form of cassock for men, or a distinctive dress and bonnet for women.
- Danube Seven - The Danube Seven (Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Muller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White) are a group of seven women from Germany, Austria and the United States who were ordained on a pleasure boat on the Danube on 29 June of 2002 by Rómulo Antonio Braschi, an Independent Catholic Bishop whose orders are recognised as 'valid but illicit' by the Roman Catholic Church. As a consequence of this violation of Canon law and their refusal to repent, the women were excommunicated and invalidly ordained.
- Nashim - Nashim ("Women" or "Wives") is the third order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud), containing the laws related to women and family life. Of the six orders of the Mishna, it is the second shortest.
- Augustinian nuns - Augustinian nuns are the most ancient and continuous segment of the Roman Catholic Augustinian religious order under the canons of contemporary historical method. The Augustinian nuns, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic enclosed monastic orders of women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of St.
- Salesian Sisters - The title Salesian Sisters may refer to one of these Roman Catholic orders for women: