Cardinals by Religious Order

Religious Order	Initials
Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines)	O.S.B.	10		157
Order of Preachers (Dominicans)	O.P.	4	3	79
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)	S.J.	1	9	50
Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Conventual Franciscans)	O.F.M. Conv.	5	3	42
Order of Cistercians (Cistercians)	O. Cist.	5	1	41
Confederation of Canons Regular of Saint Augustine	C.R.S.A.	6		37
Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans)	O.F.M.		5	23
Salesians of Saint John Bosco (Salesians)	S.D.B.		10	20
Order of Saint Augustine (Augustinians)	O.S.A.	1	1	18
Confederation of Oratories of Saint Philip Neri (Oratorians)	C.O.			14
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Capuchin Franciscans)	O.F.M. Cap.		4	14
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.		1	8
Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Barnabites)	B.			7
Canons Regular of the Congregation of the Most Holy Saviour at Bologna	C.R.S.S.B.	1		7
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists)	C.SS.R.		2	7
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Oblates)	O.M.I.		1	6
Order of Friar Servants of Mary (Servites)	O.S.M.			6
Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians, Lazarists)	C.M.		3	5
Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians)	C.M.F.		2	5
Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy (Mercedarians)	O. de M.			5
Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice (Sulpicians)	P.S.S.		1	5
Clerics Regular of Somasca (Somascans)	C.R.S.			3
Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (Scalabrinians)	C.S.		2	3
Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)	M. Afr.		1	3
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.		2	3
Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutists)	C.I.C.M.			2
Canons Regular of Saint Mary of Crescenzago	C.R.S.M.C.			2
Congregation of Holy Cross (Holy Cross Fathers)	C.S.C.		1	2
Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans, Holy Ghost Fathers)	C.S.Sp.		2	2
Opus Dei	Opus Dei		2	2
Oblates of Saints Ambrose and Charles	O.Ss.C.A.			2
Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians)	S.C.I.			2
Basilian Alepian Order	B.A.			1
Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudists)	C.I.M.		1	1
Oratory of France (Oratorians of France)	C.O.I.			1
Missionaries of the Precious Blood	C.PP.S.			1
Canons Regular of Saint Anthony of Vienne (Antonines)	C.R.S.Ant.			1
Canons Regular of Saint John Baptist of Lyons	C.R.S.J.			1
	C.R.S. Pietro in Caelo aureo			1
Congregation of Saint Basil (Basilians)	C.S.B.			1
Consolata Missionaries	I.M.C.		1	1
Institute of Schönstatt Fathers	I.Sch.		1	1
Secular Institute of Pius X	I.S.P.X.		1	1
Institute Voluntas Dei	I.V.D.		1	1
Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ	L.C.		1	1
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.		1	1
Society of Missionaries of Saint Paul	M.S.P.			1
Ukrainian Studite Monks	M.S.U.			1
Order of Augustinian Recollects (Augustinian Recollects)	O.A.R.		1	1
Order of Discalced Friars Minor (Alcantarines, Discalced Franciscans)	O.F.M. Disc.			1
Order of Reformed Friars Minor	O.F.M. Ref.			1
Order of the Humiliati	O.Hum.			1
Mariamite Maronite Order (Aleppians)	O.M.M.		1	1
Order of the Canons Regular of Prémontré (Norbertines, Premonstratensians)	O. Praem.			1
Military Order of Saint James the Sword	O.S.			1
Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (Pauline Fathers)	O.S.P.P.E.			1
Oblates of Saints Charles and Gaudentius of Novara	O.Ss.G.C.N.			1
Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Trinitarians)	O.SS.T.			1
Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions	P.I.M.E.			1
Poor Servants of Divine Providence	P.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

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