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MOTHERHOUSE
The autonomous monastic institution that retains jurisdiction over monasteries (daughter houses) that derive from it. Also the generalate of an institute of religious women.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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