Prospective member of religious orderReligious Order All the different religious houses, regardless of location, which are united and bound by the same Rule. There are religious orders of monks or nuns (eg Benedictines, Cistercians), regular canons or regular canonesses (eg Augustinians, Premonstratensians, Arrouaisians, Victorines), and mendicants (eg Dominican Order, Franciscans, Carmelites). who has not yet taken full vows.