A teaching order is a

Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

religious institute In the Catholic Church, a religious institute is "a society in which members, according to proper law, pronounce public religious vows, vows, either perpetual or temporary which are to be renewed, however, when the period of time has elapsed, a ...

whose particular

charism In Christianity, a spiritual gift or charism (plural: charisms or charismata; in Greek language, Greek singular: wikt:χάρισμα, χάρισμα ''charisma'', plural: χαρίσματα ''charismata'') is an extraordinary power given by the ...

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

. Many orders and societies sponsor educational programs and institutions, and teaching orders participate in other charitable and spiritual activities; a teaching order is distinguished in that education is a primary mission.

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Teaching orders may operate their own institutions, from

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

through the

university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

level, provide staff to diocesan or other

Catholic school Catholic schools are Parochial school, parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest parochial schools, religious, no ...

s, or otherwise contribute to educational ministries. Such teaching orders include the following: * Apostolic Carmel Sisters (Congregation of the Apostolic Carmel) * Basilian Fathers (Congregation of St. Basil) * Brigidine Sisters * Brotherhood of Hope - evangelization at secular universities * Brothers of Our Lady of Lourdes - education of youth * Carmelites of Mary Immaculate - seminaries and training of priests; education of youth * Christian Brothers (Irish) (Congregation of Christian Brothers) - education of the materially poor * Congregation of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux *

De La Salle Christian Brothers The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (; ; ) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic lay religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in France by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ( ...

(Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools) *

Dominicans Dominicans () also known as Quisqueyans () are an ethnic group, ethno-nationality, national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican ethnic group was born out of a fusio ...

(Order of Preachers) * Gabrielite Brothers (Brothers of Christian Instruction of St Gabriel) - education of youth * Grey Ursulines (Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus) * Society of the Holy Child Jesus - education of youth in a nurturing environment *

Congregation of Holy Cross The Congregation of Holy Cross (), abbreviated CSC, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in 1837 by Basil Moreau, in Le Mans, France. Moreau also founded the Marianites of Holy Cross for women, n ...

- education of youth, especially in matters of faith * Holy Ghost Fathers, or Spiritans (Congregation of the Holy Spirit) * Religious Teachers Filippini (Pontifical Institute of the Religious Teachers Filippini) - education of youth and of adults, especially women *

Jesuits The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

(Society of Jesus) * Josephites, or Brown Joeys (Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart) - education of the poor and in rural areas * Loreto Sisters (Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary) * Loretto Community (Sisters of Loretto) * Marianists (Society of Mary) - education of youth * Marianites of Holy Cross - evangelization through education *

Marist Brothers The Marist Brothers of the Schools, commonly known as simply the Marist Brothers, is an international community of Catholic Church, Catholic religious institute of Religious brother, brothers. In 1817, Marcellin Champagnat, a Marist priest from Fr ...

(Little Brothers of Mary) - education of youth, especially the "most neglected" * Piarists (Order of Poor Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools) - education of youth * Presentation Brothers (Congregation of Presentation Brothers) - * Presentation Sisters (Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary) - education in parochial schools * Religious of the Virgin Mary - education of youth especially women * Sacred Heart Brothers - education of youth * Salesians of Don Bosco - education and evangelization of youth * School Sisters of Notre Dame * Sisters of Charity of New York - education in a "caring environment" * Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth * Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill *

Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known by its initials BVM, is a Roman Catholic religious institute founded in the United States by Mother Mary Frances Clarke. Its founders were Irish Catholics. The BVM currently works in tw ...

* Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary * Sisters of Holy Cross - education of the underserved * Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur *

Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (I.H.M.) is a Catholicism, Catholic Religious institute (Catholic), religious institute of sisters, founded in 1845 by Fr. Louis Florent Gillet, Redemptorists, CSsR, and Mother Theresa Maxis D ...

* Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres * Sulpicians (Society of Saint-Sulpice) - education of clergy * Viatorians (Clerics of Saint Viator) * Xaverian Brothers (Congregation of St. Francis Xavier) - education of youth

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