Congregation of Windesheim

Congregation of Windesheim

Congregatio Vindesemensis (Latin)[1]
Modern photo of the former beguinage in Windesheim
Abbreviation	C.R.V. (post-nominal letters) [2]
Formation	1386; 638 years ago (1386)[3]
Founded at	Windesheim, Netherlands
Type	Order of Canons Regular of Pontifical Right (for Men)[4]
Headquarters	Propstei St. Michael, Paring 1, D-84085 Langquaid, Germany
Members	22 members (12 priests) as of 2017[5]
Motto	Latin: English:
Prior General	Abbot Olivier Deysine, CRV[6]
Ministry	Apostolate of hospitality
Parent organization	Roman Catholic Church
Formerly called	Brethren of the Common Life

The Congregation of Windesheim (Latin: Congregatio Vindesemensis) is a congregation of Augustinian canons regular (i.e., ecclesiastics living in community and bound by vows). It takes its name from its most important monastery, which was located at Windesheim, about four miles south of Zwolle on the IJssel, in the Netherlands.

This congregation of canons regular, of which this was the chief house, was an offshoot of the Brethren of the Common Life and played a considerable part in the reform movement within the Dutch and German Catholic Church in the century before the Protestant Reformation.