Editing Mendicant orders (section)

== Active orders ==
The [[Second Council of Lyon]] (1274) recognised four main mendicant orders, created in the first half of the 13th century:
* Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel ([[Carmelites]]) first historical recorded in 1155<ref name="Carmelites Cath Encyc">{{cite web |title=The Carmelite Order |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03354a.htm |website=www.newadvent.org |publisher=Catholic Encyclopedia |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref> and their reform branch, the [[Discalced Carmelites]] (established in the 16th century)
* [[Order of Friars Minor]] ([[Franciscans]]) founded 1209<ref name="RSF Cath Encyc">{{cite web |title=Rule of Saint Francis |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06208a.htm |website=www.newadvent.org |publisher=Catholic Encyclopedia |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref>
* [[Order of Preachers]] (Dominicans) founded 1216<ref name="OP History">{{cite web |title=History Of The Order |url=https://www.english.op.org/about-us/the-dominican-order/history-of-the-order/#:~:text=Official%20Foundation,the%20confirmation%20of%20the%20Order. |website=The Dominican Friars in Britain |publisher=English Province of the order |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref>
* [[Order of Saint Augustine]] (Augustinians) founded in 1244<ref name="Foundation APTV">{{cite web |title=The Augustinian Order |url=https://augustinian.org/about/order/#:~:text=Augustine%20was%20founded%20in%201244,that%20had%20recently%20been%20founded. |website=The Augustinians |publisher=Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref>
Other mendicant orders recognized by the [[Holy See]] today are the

* Order of the Most Blessed Trinity ([[Trinitarians]]) sometimes called the Red Friars, founded 1193
* [[Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy]] (Mercedarians) founded 1218 and after a reform [[Discalced Mercedarians]].
* Order of Servants of Mary ([[Servite Order|Servite]]s) founded 1233 by the Seven Holy Men of Florence, Italy. The order was suppressed by the Second Council of Lyon on the basis of the restrictions in the decree ''Ne nimium'' of 1215; the suppression was not fully enforced and was subsequently overturned by [[Pope Benedict XI]] in his [[Papal bull|Bull]], ''Dum levamus'', of 11 February 1304.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13736a.htm Griffin, Patrick. ''Order of Servites''. The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 19 Aug. 2013]</ref>
* [[Order of Minims]] ([[Hermit|hermits]] of St. Francis of Paola) founded 1436.
* Other [[Franciscan]] orders:
** [[Order of Friars Minor Conventual]]
** [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin]]
* [[Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God|Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of Saint John of God]] founded in 1572 by [[John of God]].
* Order of the Poor Clerics Secular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools ([[Piarists]]) founded in 1617 by [[Joseph Calasanz]].
* [[Bethlehemite Brothers|Order of Bethlehemite Brothers]], founded in Guatemala in 1653 and suppressed in 1820. They were refounded in 1984.<ref name="Giancarlo Rocca 1978">Giancarlo Rocca (dir.), ''Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione'', Edizioni Paoline, Roma, vol. V, 1978, col. 1185.</ref>

Like the monastic orders, many of the mendicant orders (especially the larger ones) underwent splits and reform efforts, forming offshoots (permanent or otherwise) some of which are mentioned in the lists given above.