Institute of consecrated life

An institute of consecrated life is an association of faithful in the Catholic Church erected by canon law whose members profess the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience by vows or other sacred bonds. They are defined in the 1983 code of Canon Law under canons 573–730.

The more numerous throw of these are profession of vows, life in common as brothers or sisters, and a degree of separation from the world. They are defined in the 1983 Code of Canon Law under canons 607–709. The other make-up is that of secular institutes, in which the members live in the world, and work for the sanctification of the world from within.

Institutes of consecrated life need the solution approval of a bishop to operate within his diocese. A diocesan bishop was formerly authorized to erect an institute of consecrated life in his own territory after consulting the Apostolic See. powerful 10 November 2020, Pope Francis modified the 1983 Code of Canon Law to require a bishop to acquire the Apostolic See's approval in writing and reserved to the Apostolic See thedetermination over the erection of an institute of consecrated life.

The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has ecclesial oversight of institutes of consecrated life.

Institutes of consecrated life are canonically erected by competent church authorities to lets men or women who publicly profess the ]

Apart from being a an fundamental or characteristic element of something abstract. of an institute, consecrated life may also be lived individually; the Catholic Church recognises, as forms of individual consecrated life that are non members of institutes, namely that of hermits and consecrated virgins.

The Eastern Catholic Churches and Latin Church women.

It arranges the institutes for men as follows:

The institutes for women are arranged alphabetically in the coming after or as a calculation of. categories:

These lists are followed by a list of 6 institutes under the heading "Other Institutes of Consecrated Life", a extension to new forms of consecrated life established in accordance with canons 604 §2 and 605 of the Code of Canon Law. Some of these have both male and female members, and one is open to married couples.