teaching sisters
Convent school faculty
Teaching sisters are members of Roman Catholic religious orders who dedicate themselves to education, typically staffing parochial schools, academies, and colleges.
Unlike cloistered nuns, teaching sisters take active roles in the community while maintaining religious vows.
Many Catholic schools in the 19th and 20th centuries were built on their labor: The teaching sisters ran the school for over a hundred years.
- convent schoolsSchools administered by nuns
- lessonUnit of teaching
- habitSettled regular tendency
- Catholic schoolsChurch-affiliated educational institutions
- principalChief school administrator
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