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Order of Preachers
Ordo Praedicatorum(Latin)
Coat of arms of the order
Abbreviation
OP
Formation
1206 (for women)
1215 (for men)
December 22, 1216 (December 22, 1216) (of pontifical right)
Founder
Dominic de Guzmán
Founded at
Prouille, France (for women)
Toulouse, France (for men)
Headquarters
Convento Santa Sabina, Piazza Pietro d'Illiria 1, Rome, Italy[1]
Membership (2020)
5,545 members (includes 4,147 priests)[1]
Motto
Laudare, benedicere, praedicare (Latin for 'To praise, to bless, to preach')
Master of the Order
Fr. Gerard Timoner III, OP
Patron Saints
Saint Dominic
Mary Magdalene
Catherine of Siena
Parent organization
Catholic Church
Website
op.org
Saint Dominic, portrayed in the Perugia Altarpiece by Fra Angelico, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia.A figure depicting the term domini canes (lat. "hounds of the lord") since the Inquisition in the 13th century,[a][2] on a corner of a former Dominican monastery (before the Reformation), Old University, Marburg, Germany.
The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum; abbreviated OP), also known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars,[b] nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries). More recently, there has been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries.
Founded to preach the gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it in the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages.[3] The order is famed for its intellectual tradition by having produced many leading theologians and philosophers.[4] In 2018, there were 5,747 Dominican friars, including 4,299 priests.[1] The order is headed by the master of the order who, as of 2022[update], is Gerard Timoner III.[5] Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Siena are the co-patronesses of the order.
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