Usually means: Religious clergy living communally, ordained.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Canon regular)

noun:  The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are Catholic priests who live in community under a rule (and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology.


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