Consecrated life

Consecrated Life (Latin Vita consecrata ) describes Christianity in a number of forms of consecrated life, going back in their original form on early Christianity.

In most churches there are forms of consecrated life, as in the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran Church. Some of these life forms of consecrated life to be lived in community in a community, a convent or monastery, but there are also solitary life forms such as the diocesan hermits and consecrated virgins. The life of consecrated persons is sorted out by the canon law usually also by a rule or order of life.

  • Hermit
  • Consecrated Virgin
  • Monasticism
  • Nun
  • Nun
  • Congregation
  • Religious institute
  • Congregation
  • Secular Institute
  • Society of Apostolic Life
  • Institute of consecrated life

Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita consecrata

Pope John Paul II wrote the published on 25 March 1996 Apostolic Exhortation Vita consecrata on the consecrated life.

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