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Summary
- The first Anglican sisterhood since the Reformation, the Park Village Community, was founded in London on 26 March 1845; Anglican orders take vows that often include poverty, chastity and obedience.
- Lutheran communities include six convents in the Duchy of Lüneburg kept as Protestant foundations at the Reformation, the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary (Darmstadt, 1947) and the Communität Casteller Ring in Bavaria.
- Grandchamp, near Neuchâtel in Switzerland, is a community of Reformed sisters whose first seven members professed in 1952 and which follows the Rule of Taizé.
- Taizé, founded in 1940 by Brother Roger Schütz, is a community of Protestant and Catholic brothers; Anglican orders for men began in 1866.
- Deaconesses are a separate office, begun at Kaiserswerth in 1836 by Theodor and Friederike Fliedner; the Church of England licensed Elizabeth Ferard in 1862.
- Sisters in traditional Anglican communities take a vow of celibacy; the Lutheran General Synod defined a deaconess in 1895 as an “unmarried woman.”
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