Gilbertine Order

Gilbertine Order
Order of Gilbertine Canons Regular
Named afterGilbert of Sempringham
Formationc. 1130
FounderGilbert of Sempringham
Founded atSempringham
Dissolved1539
Legal statusDissolved
HeadquartersSempringham Priory
Location
Official language
English
Master of the Gilbertine Order
Gilbert of Sempringham (first)
Robert Holgate (last)
AffiliationsCatholic Church

The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest. It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[1] Modest Gilbertine revivals have taken place in the late 20th and early 21st centuries on three continents.

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