Communities By The Name of Order of The Holy Cross
Order of the Holy Cross refers to several institutions by that name:
- Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross (OSC), alias the Crosiers, a Catholic religious order founded in 1211 at Clairlieu near Huy, Belgium
- Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra (ORC), a Catholic religious order founded in Portugal in 1131 and refounded in 1977
- Order of the Holy Cross (OHC), an Anglican Benedictine community based in New York state in the United States
- Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, a knightly order conferred by the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem of Belgium
- Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem (Province of the United States)
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