...Religious Orders

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There are Religious Orders of all shapes and sizes.

Some spend more time in prayer and work within the house.

Monks are men's orders and Nuns are women.

Some Orders were founded for Missionary work.

Many Women's Orders live and work in the wider community.

Men who wish to become Religious can choose to join an order of Brothers or an order with both Priests and Brothers.

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Monks

Ampleforth Abbey
Benedictines Douai
Carthusians
English Benedictine Congregation
St Michael's Abbey Farnborough

Nuns

Benedictines Isle of Wight  
Benedictines Tyburn
Bernadine Cistercians
Contemplative Dominican Nuns
Poor Clare Colettine Community

Missionary Orders

Claretians
Columban Missionary Society
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
Medical Mission Sisters
Medical Missionaries of Mary
Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)
Montfort Missionaries
Our Lady of the Missions
The Vincentians(CMs)
Verona Fathers/Comboni Missionaries

Women's Orders

Benedictines Grace and Compassion
Daughters of Charity in Britain
Faithful Companions of Jesus
Infant Jesus Sisters
La Retraite
Little Company of Mary
Marist Sisters
Notre Dame de Namur
Poor Servants of the Mother of God
Presentation Sisters
Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer)
Religious of Mary Immaculate
Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of the Cenacle
Society of the Holy Child Jesus
Society of the Sacred Heart
Sisters of Mary Reparatrix
Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy
Sisters of St Joseph of Peace
The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Brothers

Congregation of Christian Brothers
De La Salle Brothers

Priests and Brothers

Augustinians
Carmelite Friars in the UK
Franciscans
Institute of Charity (Rosminians)
Order of Preachers (Dominican Friars)
Redemptorist Vocation Site in Britain
Salesian Web Site
Servants of the Paraclete
Society of Jesus-Jesuits
Society of Mary
Society of the Divine Saviour
The Josephites

Other useful sites

Anglican Religious Communities
Community of the Prince of Peace/Baptist Community
Community of the Resurrection-Anglican Monastic
Diocesan Vocations Service of England & Wales
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary-International
Maryknoll
Monks of Adoration
Poor Servants of the Mother of God
Redemptorist Vocation Sites in Ireland
Serra International
Servite Secular Institute
Sisters of Jesus Our Hope (USA)
Society of St Francis
St Anne's Hospice ( run by Sisters of Joseph of Annecy)
Taize
Westminster Diocese