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((short description|Fraternity organized as an order))
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A '''fraternal order''' is a [[fraternity]] organised as an order, with traits alluding to [[religious order|religious]], [[chivalric order|chivalric]] or [[pseudo-chivalric orders]], [[guild]]s, or [[secret society|secret societies]]. Contemporary fraternal orders typically have [[secular]] purposes, including social, cultural and mutually beneficial or [[Charity (practice)|charitable]] aims.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.yourdictionary.com/fraternal|title=Fraternal Meaning &#124; Best 14 Definitions of Fraternal))</ref> Many [[friendly societies]], [[benefit societies]] and [[mutual organisation]]s take the form of a fraternal order.

Fraternal societies are often divided geographically into units called lodges or [[province]]s. They sometimes involve a system of [[awards]], [[medals]], [[civil awards and decorations|decorations]], [[style (manner of address)|styles]], [[degree (Freemasonry)|degrees]], [[Title of authority|offices]], [[order (distinction)|orders]], or other [[phaleristics|distinctions]], often associated with [[regalia]], insignia, [[initiation]] and other [[ritual]]s, secret greetings, signs, passwords, [[oaths]], and more or less elaborate [[symbol|symbolism]], as in chivalric orders.

== Examples ==
The [[Freemasons]] and [[Odd Fellows]] emerged in the 18th century in the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]]. Other examples, which emerged later, include the [[Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks]], the [[Fraternal Order of Eagles]], the [[Independent Order of Rechabites]], the [[Templars of Honor and Temperance]], the [[Independent Order of Foresters]], the [[Knights of Columbus]], and the [[Loyal Order of Moose]]. Some may have ethnic or religious affiliations, such as [[Ancient Order of Hibernians]] or [[Order of Alhambra]] for [[Irish Catholics]], or the [[Orange Order]] for [[Irish Protestants]]. Some orders have a clear political agenda, sometimes radical or militant - for example, the [[Nativism (politics)|Nativist]] and [[anti-Catholic]] [[Order of the Star Spangled Banner]] and [[Order of United Americans]], active in the 1840s US, or the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Some are associated with professions, such as the [[Fraternal Order of Police]], while yet others are focused on academic traditions.<ref>((Cite web|url = https://www.npcwomen.org/resources/pdf/Adventures%20in%20Friendship.pdf|title = Adventure in Friendship: A History of The National Panhellenic Conference|access-date = November 23, 2016|website = National Panhellenic Conference|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130628024619/https://www.npcwomen.org/resources/pdf/Adventures%20in%20Friendship.pdf|archive-date = June 28, 2013|url-status = dead))</ref><ref>((cite web |url=http://utspromos.com/utspromos/Stores/Page/1000010/Custom_Greek_Gear_And_Apparel |title=Fraternity Apparel |access-date=November 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124090918/http://utspromos.com/utspromos/Stores/Page/1000010/Custom_Greek_Gear_And_Apparel |archive-date=November 24, 2016 |url-status=live ))</ref><ref name=Stevens>((cite book |author = Stevens, Albert C. |year = 1907 |title = Cyclopedia of Fraternities: A Compilation of Existing Authentic Information and the Results of Original Investigation as to the Origin, Derivation, Founders, Development, Aims, Emblems, Character, and Personnel of More Than Six Hundred Secret Societies in the United States |publisher = E. B. Treat and Company))</ref>

In the more social type, each [[wikt:lodge|lodge]] is generally responsible for its own affairs, but it is often affiliated to an order such as the [[Independent Order of Odd Fellows]] or the [[Independent Order of Foresters]]. There are typically reciprocal agreements between lodges within an order, so that if members move to other cities or countries, they can join a new lodge without an initiation period. 

The ceremonies are fairly uniform throughout an order. Occasionally, a lodge might change the order that it is affiliated to, two orders might merge, or a group of lodges will break away from an order and form a new one. For example, the Independent Order of Foresters was set up in 1874 when it separated from the [[Ancient Order of Foresters]] [[Foresters Friendly Society]], which itself was formed from the [[Royal Foresters Society]] in 1834.

Consequently, the histories of some fraternal orders and [[friendly society|friendly societies]] are difficult to follow. Often there are different, unrelated organisations with similar names.

== See also ==
* [[List of general fraternities]]

== References ==
((Reflist))

((Orders))

[[Category:Fraternal orders| ]]

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