Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem

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The Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem is a clerical Institute of Consecrated Life in the Catholic Church, founded in 2002 in the Diocese of La Crosse, and currently located in Chesterfield, Missouri, in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. This institute celebrates the traditional Latin Liturgy (Tridentine Mass) according to the rites of 1962, as promulgated by Pope John Paul II's motu proprio "Ecclesia Dei" of 1988. The members live in community under the Augustinian Rule. The institute was founded by Bishop Raymond Leo Burke and Dom Daniel Augustine Oppenheimer, Prior.^[1]

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• Augustinians
• Augustinian Recollects
• Bridgittines
• Order of the Canons Regular of Premontre; Norbertines founded by St. Norbert (1120)

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• Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem
• Catholic Encyclopaedia article - now very outdated