Canons Regular

As Canons Regular, also regulated canons ( canons' is a synonym for canon ), refers to the members of a collegiate, who live by a monastic rule, possess the priesthood and religious vows have passed, but are not monks. In the Rule is usually one of two rules of hl. Augustine of Hippo, the ordo novus ordo or antiquus.

They differ from Säkularkanonikern, which are also canons, to have but placed without a religious vows.

Did the Canons Regular of their main task originally in celebration of choral prayer, to which came near the practical pastoral care, as many of them see their main task today in pastoral care. Accordingly, the weight has shifted from strong personal abbeys and Kanonien to smaller convents.

Various Canons Order have the "modern religious " equalized. They are divided into provinces and dependent convents, and its members no longer occur in a particular house, but in the Order and are movable.

To working in Germany canons regular are today

• Canons Regular
• Ecclesiastical Office