position_held jordan of saxony
___MASK71___ Honorius III ( 1150  18 March 1227 ), born as Cencio Savelli , was ___MASK71___ from 18 July 1216 to his death in 1227 . The Blessed Jordan of Saxony , O . P . ( referred to in Latin as Jordanis , also known as de Alamania ; c . 1190 -- 1237 ) , was one of the first leaders of the Dominican Order . His feast day is February 15 . A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded since the twelfth or thirteenth century ; the term distinguishes the mendicants ' itinerant apostolic character , exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a ___MASK97___ , from the older monastic orders ' allegiance to a single monastery formalized by their vow of stability . The most significant orders of friars are the Dominicans , Franciscans , Augustinians and Carmelites . A papal bull is a particular type of public decree , letters patent , or charter issued by a ___MASK71___ of the Roman Catholic Church . It is named after the lead seal (" bulla ") that was traditionally appended to the end in order to authenticate it . The Order of Preachers ( postnominal abbreviation O . P .), also known as the Dominican Order , is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish ___MASK100___ Dominic of Caleruega in France , approved by ___MASK71___ Honorius III via the papal bull " Religiosam vitam " on 22 December 1216 . Members of the order , who are referred to as " Dominicans ", generally carry the letters O . P . after their names , standing for " Ordinis Praedicatorum ", meaning " of the Order of Preachers ". Membership in the order includes friars , nuns , active sisters , and affiliated lay or secular Dominicans ( formerly known as tertiaries , though recently there has been a growing number of associates who are unrelated to the tertiaries ). Religiosam vitam is the " incipit " designating a Papal bull issued on December 22 , 1216 by ___MASK71___ Honorius III . It gave universal recognition to the Dominican Order . The Order already had monasteries in Rome , Paris and Boulogne and had already been locally recognized by the bishop of Toulouse the year before - its creation had coincided with the Albigensian Crusade in southern France , in whose support the Dominicans had been very active . It adopted the rule of St Augustine , but was also regulated by rulings and decisions taken by regular general chapters .