Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre
| Ordo Canonicorum Regularium Custodum Sacrosant Sepulchri Domini Hierosolymitani | |
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Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre |
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| Successor | Order of the Holy Sepulchre (1496) |
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| Formation | 1113 (1099) |
| Founded at |
Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem, Kingdom of Jerusalem |
| Extinction | 1489 |
| Type | Canons Regular |
| Purpose | Protection of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre |
| Location | |
| Methods | Rule of Saint Augustine |
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Parent organization
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Catholic Church |
| Secessions | Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre (circa 1300) |
| Affiliations | Knights of the Holy Sepulchre |
The Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre were a Catholic religious order of canons regular of the Rule of Saint Augustine said to have been founded in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, then the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, recognised in 1113 by Papal bull of Pope Paschal II. Other accounts has it that they were founded earlier, during the rule of Godfrey of Bouillon (1099–1100).
After the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin, the Canons fled the Holy Land along with other Latin Christians. They first settled briefly on Cyprus, where they established Bellapais Abbey, before proceeding to settle in various countries of Europe.
While the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre was suppressed in 1489 by Pope Innocent VIII, its history runs common and parallel to that of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (along with the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of the Custody of the Holy Land), with Grand Magistery vested in the Papacy since 1496.
Yet, the Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, founded in the 14th century as a female branch of the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, still exists in convents in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and England.
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