canons regular

Canons regular are members of Roman Catholic religious institutes. These institutes consist of regular priests who live in a community under a rule, most commonly the Rule of St. Augustine. The Augustinian Canons, or Austin Canons, were the first religious order in the Roman Catholic Church to combine clerical status with a full common life, adopting the Rule of St. Augustine in the 11th century. The term "canon" itself derives from the Greek word for "rule" or "standard," and canon law refers to the body of laws and regulations made by or given to the church. Modern consistories in the Roman Catholic Church, while largely ceremonial, involve actions such as voting on the canonization of saints.12345