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A priory is a house
House

A house generally refers to a or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by humans. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings....
 of men or women under religious vows headed by a prior
Prior

Prior is a title, derived from the Latin adjective for 'earlier, first', with several notable uses....
 or prioress.

Priories may be houses of mendicant friar
Friar

A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders....
s or religious sisters (as the Dominicans
Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic in the early 13th century in France....
, Augustinians and Carmelites
Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Roman Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, whence the order receives its name....
, for instance), or monasteries
Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
 of monk
Monk

A Monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, the unconditioning of mind and body in favor of the realization of one's true nature, and does so living either alone or with any number of like-minded people, whilst always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose....
s or nun
Nun

A Nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. She may be an monasticism who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent....
s (as the Carthusians).

The Benedictines and their offshoots (Cistercians
Cistercians

Image:Cistersian priests in Szczyrzyc monastery.JPGThe keynote of Cistercian life was a return to literal observance of the Rule of St Benedict. Rejecting the developments the Benedictines had undergone, the monks tried to reproduce life exactly as it had been in Benedict of Nursia time; indeed in various points they went beyond it in austerity....
 and Trappists
Trappists

The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance , or Trappists, are a contemplative Roman Catholic religious order , that follows the Rule of St....
 among them), the Premonstratensians, and the military orders distinguish between conventual and simple or obedientiary priories.






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A priory is a house
House

A house generally refers to a or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by humans. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings....
 of men or women under religious vows headed by a prior
Prior

Prior is a title, derived from the Latin adjective for 'earlier, first', with several notable uses....
 or prioress.

Priories may be houses of mendicant friar
Friar

A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders....
s or religious sisters (as the Dominicans
Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic in the early 13th century in France....
, Augustinians and Carmelites
Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Roman Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, whence the order receives its name....
, for instance), or monasteries
Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
 of monk
Monk

A Monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, the unconditioning of mind and body in favor of the realization of one's true nature, and does so living either alone or with any number of like-minded people, whilst always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose....
s or nun
Nun

A Nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. She may be an monasticism who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent....
s (as the Carthusians).

The Benedictines and their offshoots (Cistercians
Cistercians

Image:Cistersian priests in Szczyrzyc monastery.JPGThe keynote of Cistercian life was a return to literal observance of the Rule of St Benedict. Rejecting the developments the Benedictines had undergone, the monks tried to reproduce life exactly as it had been in Benedict of Nursia time; indeed in various points they went beyond it in austerity....
 and Trappists
Trappists

The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance , or Trappists, are a contemplative Roman Catholic religious order , that follows the Rule of St....
 among them), the Premonstratensians, and the military orders distinguish between conventual and simple or obedientiary priories. Conventual priories are those autonomous houses which have no abbot
Abbot

The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery....
s, either because the canonically required number of twelve monks has not yet been reached or for some other reason. At present the Benedictine Order has twenty-seven conventual priories. Simple or obedientiary priories are dependencies of abbeys. Their superior, who is subject to the abbot in everything, is called simple or obedientiary prior. These monasteries are satellites of the mother abbey.

Priories were originally Catholic institutions. A special case is the ecumenical priory of the Taizé Community
Taizé Community

The Taiz? Community is an ecumenical Christian monasticism order in Taiz?, Sa?ne-et-Loire, Sa?ne-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. It is comprised of a little over 100 brothers who come from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions....
.

Priory may also refer to schools operated or sponsored by the Benedictines, such as the Saint Louis Priory School
Saint Louis Priory School

The Saint Louis Priory School, a Roman Catholic secondary school day school for boys, is located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri, within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis....
.

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