Member of female 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)..