Dominican Order

Order o Preachers

Ordo Praedicatorum
Coat o airms o the order
Abbreviation	OP
Motto	Laudare, Benedicere, Praedicare ("Tae Praise, Tae Bless, Tae Preach")
Formation	1216 (1216)
Foonder	Saunt Dominic
Teep	Mendicant Catholic releegious order
Legal status	Institute o Consecratit Life
Heidquarters	Santa Sabina, Roum, Italy
Membership (2013)	6,058 (includin 4,470 priests)
Master	Bruno Cadoré
Affiliations	Catholic Kirk
Wabsteid	op.org

The Order o Preachers (Laitin: Ordo Praedicatorum, postnominal abbreviation O.P.), an aa kent as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic releegious order foondit bi the Spaingie priest Dominic o Caleruega in Fraunce, approved bi Pape Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.