List of some religious institutes (Catholic)

The following is a list of some religious institutes and other associations in the Roman Catholic Church. It makes no distinction between those of pontifical right or only of diocesan right, and includes even some associations formed with a view to becoming religious institutes but not yet canonically erected even on the diocesan level. It also makes no distinction between those that before 1983 would be classified either as "orders" or as "congregations".

It makes no attempt to include all religious institutes. The Annuario Pontificio lists for both men and women the institutes of consecrated life and the like that are "of pontifical right" (those that the Holy See has erected or approved by formal decree).^[1] The list of pontifical-right religious institutes of women takes up 216 pages of the publication, with 6 or 7 institutes (mostly 7) on each page.^[2]