Canons Regular of the Lateran

Augustinian canons of Lateran also " Lateran Canons " (Latin: Congregation Canonicorum Regularium Ss Salvatoris Lateranensis, Order code:. CRL ) is the name for the " Congregation of the Most Holy Saviour of the Lateran ." You live by the rules of the order of St. Augustine and were donated in 1059, they have established congregations in Italy, France, Poland and Austria.

In memory of his coronation as King of the Holy Roman Empire Charles IV founded in 1351 in Aachen Cathedral, a monastery for Augustinian canons.

Pope Eugenius IV (1431-1447) occupied in 1446 the Lateran Basilica in Rome with the Augustinian Canons. From this, the " Augustinian canons of Lateran " developed

The Cardinal Priest Church St. Peter in Chains (St. Peter in Chains ) is the church of the Augustinian canons of Lateran, in it the relic " chains of Peter " is worshiped. The Lateran Congregation, which consisted mainly of the cathedral chapter of the Lateran church was incorporated into the confederation of the Augustinian Canons in 1960. Bruno Giuliani is Abbot General since 2000.