Cardinals by Religious Order

since 1086

Religious OrderInitialsNumber of PopesNumber of Living CardinalsTotal Number of Cardinals in HistoryDescending
Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines)O.S.B.10157
Order of Preachers (Dominicans)O.P.4379
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)S.J.1950
Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Conventual Franciscans)O.F.M. Conv.5342
Order of Cistercians (Cistercians)O. Cist.5141
Confederation of Canons Regular of Saint AugustineC.R.S.A.637
Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans)O.F.M.523
Salesians of Saint John Bosco (Salesians)S.D.B.1020
Order of Saint Augustine (Augustinians)O.S.A.1118
Confederation of Oratories of Saint Philip Neri (Oratorians)C.O.14
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Capuchin Franciscans)O.F.M. Cap.414
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta)S.M.O.M.10
Congregation of Clerics Regular (Theatines)C.R.8
Order of Discalced Carmelites (Teresian Carmelites)O.C.D.18
Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Barnabites)B.7
Canons Regular of the Congregation of the Most Holy Saviour at BolognaC.R.S.S.B.17
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists)C.SS.R.27
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Oblates)O.M.I.16
Order of Friar Servants of Mary (Servites)O.S.M.6
Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians, Lazarists)C.M.35
Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians)C.M.F.25
Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy (Mercedarians)O. de M.5
Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice (Sulpicians)P.S.S.15
Clerics Regular of Somasca (Somascans)C.R.S.3
Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (Scalabrinians)C.S.23
Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)M. Afr.13
Carthusian Order (Carthusians)O. Cart.3
Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)O.E.S.S.H.3
Society of the Divine Word (Verbites)S.V.D.23
Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutists)C.I.C.M.2
Canons Regular of Saint Mary of CrescenzagoC.R.S.M.C.2
Congregation of Holy Cross (Holy Cross Fathers)C.S.C.12
Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans, Holy Ghost Fathers)C.S.Sp.22
Opus DeiOpus Dei22
Oblates of Saints Ambrose and CharlesO.Ss.C.A.2
Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians)S.C.I.2
Basilian Alepian OrderB.A.1
Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudists)C.I.M.11
Oratory of France (Oratorians of France)C.O.I.1
Missionaries of the Precious BloodC.PP.S.1
Canons Regular of Saint Anthony of Vienne (Antonines)C.R.S.Ant.1
Canons Regular of Saint John Baptist of LyonsC.R.S.J.1
C.R.S. Pietro in Caelo aureo1
Congregation of Saint Basil (Basilians)C.S.B.1
Consolata MissionariesI.M.C.11
Institute of Schönstatt FathersI.Sch.11
Secular Institute of Pius XI.S.P.X.11
Institute Voluntas DeiI.V.D.11
Congregation of the Legionaries of ChristL.C.11
Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (Comboni Missionaries)M.C.C.J.1
Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Marian Fathers)M.I.C.1
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sacred Heart Missionaries)M.S.C.11
Society of Missionaries of Saint PaulM.S.P.1
Ukrainian Studite MonksM.S.U.1
Order of Augustinian Recollects (Augustinian Recollects)O.A.R.11
Order of Discalced Friars Minor (Alcantarines, Discalced Franciscans)O.F.M. Disc.1
Order of Reformed Friars MinorO.F.M. Ref.1
Order of the HumiliatiO.Hum.1
Mariamite Maronite Order (Aleppians)O.M.M.11
Order of the Canons Regular of Prémontré (Norbertines, Premonstratensians)O. Praem.1
Military Order of Saint James the SwordO.S.1
Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (Pauline Fathers)O.S.P.P.E.1
Oblates of Saints Charles and Gaudentius of NovaraO.Ss.G.C.N.1
Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Trinitarians)O.SS.T.1
Pontifical Institute for Foreign MissionsP.I.M.E.1
Poor Servants of Divine ProvidenceP.S.D.P.1
Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools (Piarists)Sch. P.1
Society of Mary (Marists)S.M.1

Last updated on 2026.04.06

See Also

Living Cardinals by Religious Order

Religious Orders

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