Regular Canons of saint Augustin

Origin

At the 4th century, Holy Augustin, bishop of Hippone (North Africa) institutes for its clergy and itself a type of community making it possible to jointly carry out a monastic life of spirit and a ministry. It is the origin of the regular canons (Canon coming from the Greek word: Kanon , rule).

The regular Chanoines of saint Augustin appeared in XIe century.

Currently

One now counts of them 13 independent congregations among which 9 gathered in a confederation in 1959:

the regular Canons of the Lateran, heirs to the community of clerks installed in Lateran by Gélase I {{er}} at the end of the 5th century (350 monks and about fifty abbeys, priories or seminars in 1985)
the regular Canons of Austria (200 monks)
the regular Canons of the hospital congregation of the Large-Saint-Bernard, founded at the 11th century by Holy Bernard de Menthon, for the service of the pilgrims and the travellers who cross the Alps (80 monks whose head office is in Martigny, in Were worth)
the regular Canons of the mother of the Redeemer.
the regular Canons of Saint-Maurice, in Switzerland (100 monks)
the regular Canons of Victor Saint,
the regular Canons of Windesheim,
the regular Canons of the Immaculate Conception, founded in 1866 by the Abbot Adrien Gréa, general vicar of Saint-Claude
the regular Canons of the Common life

Remained independent, the congregations

Prémontrés,
of Holy Cross of Coïmbre
of the Croisiers
Teutoniques

Distinction

The regular Canons are of the alive monk in community all while devoting themselves to an external ministry (e.g. Prémontrés) while the secular canons are priests diocesans held with the recitation of the divine office to the chorus and formant either a collegial chapter, or, near the bishop, a chapter cathédral.

Internal bonds

Augustins
Religious orders alphabetically
List of French augustiniennes abbeys

External bonds

Regular Canons of the Immaculate Conception

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