The Missionaries of Charity. However, they were sisters and not nuns. Nuns pretty much confine their lives to a monastery and rarely go out into the world. Sisters live in convents and work in the world.
Mother Teresa founded no monasteries. She did, however, found convents in many of the areas that her order serviced.
The Missionaries of Charity was the order founded by Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity.
She quit the Sisters of Loreto to found her own order, the Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa was originally a Sister of Loretto and then founded the Missionaries of Charity.
When Mother Teresa founded her Order, she started in the city of Calcutta.
Her order was officially recognized by the Vatican in October of 1950. It was founded in Calcutta, India.
Pope Pius XII approved her new order of the Missionaries of Charity in October of 1950.
No, Mother Teresa's mother was a housewife. Nuns do not marry or have children.
Sister Nirmala succeeded Mother Teresa after her death but retired in 2009. The current head of the order is Sister Mary Prema,.
Teresa was the name she chose upon becoming a nun. The title 'Mother' was a title given by the Sisters of Loreto to all nuns in the order.