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{{Short description|Religious order of Franciscan friars}} {{Infobox organization | name = Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | native_name = Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dqfmc.html|title = Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Institute of Consecrated Life - Men) [Catholic-Hierarchy]}}</ref> {{small|(Latin)}} | image = Capuchin logo.png | image_size = | caption = Common Capuchin logo | formation = Founded: 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi and until the reformation aimed at regaining the original spirit of St. Francis and the Original Habit of St. Francis remained as the part of main branches. Capuchin Reformation started in [[1525]].<ref name="auto"/> | founder = St. Francis of Assisi <br> Reformed as Capuchins by [[Matteo Bassi|Matteo Serafini]] | type = Mendicant Order of Pontifical Right (for men)<ref name="auto"/> | headquarters = Via Piemonte 70,<br>[[Rome]], [[Italy]]<ref name="auto"/> | members = 10,349 (6,882 priests)<ref name="auto"/> | membership_year = 2020 | leader_title = Minister General | leader_name = Fr. Roberto Genuin, OFMCap | leader_title2 = Post-nominal initials | leader_name2 = OFMCap | website = [https://www.ofmcap.org/en/ ofmcap.org]<ref name="auto"/> }} The '''Order of Friars Minor Capuchin''' ({{Langx|la|Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum}}; [[Post-nominal letters|postnominal]] abbr. '''OFMCap''') is a [[religious order (Catholic)|religious order]] of [[Franciscans|Franciscan]] [[friar]]s within the [[Catholic Church]], one of three "[[Religious institute#Nomenclature|First Orders]]" that reformed from the [[Order of Friars Minor|Franciscan Friars Minor Observant]] (OFMObs, now OFM), the other being the [[Order of Friars Minor Conventual|Conventuals]] (OFMConv). Franciscans reformed as Capuchins in 1525 with the purpose of regaining the original Habit (tunic) of St. [[Francis of Assisi]] and also for returning to a stricter observance of the rule established by [[Francis of Assisi]] in 1209.
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