Convent

A convent (from Latin conventus, 'assembly' ) is a branch of a religious community, which consists of female or male religious ( nuns, monks, friars or nuns ). Both the residents and the building or the building in which the community lives, the Convention can be called.

The term Convention came into use, as in the Church's history the eremitic lifestyle combined with the coenobitic. The hermits of the Eastern Church Lauren, who lived around the church and the cell of her superiors in individual cells cottage or caves were designated conventus. In the Western Church, the term was soon in general use.

In view of the living area of a convent to convent refers strictly to the monasteries klausuriert living orders, especially of the mendicant orders, not a congregation. Another name for the living area of the monastery, which is reserved for the residents of the Convention, is " exam".

In a narrower sense, the Convention refers to the meeting of the Conventual, the voting members of the community. Are entitled to vote all members of a monastic community, who have taken their solemn profession. In monastic orders converse and lay sisters were not part of the Convention; However, the Second Vatican Council, this distinction in favor of a " fraternal bond among the members " and " a single item of sisters " repealed.

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