Which orders have the shortest postulancy and novitiate periods?

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Just wondering, obviously not going to discern vocations based on this.
 
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If I’m not mistaken, canonically speaking, the novitiate must be at least two years long. So none will be shorter than two.
 
I believe Pope Francis made some changes that now require a minimum of nine years formation before final vows in religious orders.
 
Rather, look into which orders have the most protracted and spiritually challenging periods. Well-tested is well-affirmed.
 
At the Benedictine orders I’ve visited, novitiate is one year. It goes Postulancy (variable amount of time, enough for the community to get to know you. A month to a couple years), Novitiate (one year, cannot leave monastery grounds for the year), Temporary Vows (3 years), Permanent Vows (forever).
 
The “canonical novitiate” (required by canon law) must be at least a year; most communities, just to be sure, make it a year and a day. The majority of communities these days require a 2-year novitiate, with one year as canonical and the other not (in active communities, it’s often called “apostolic” or “ministerial”). Postulancy ranges from a few months to 2 years; in women’s congregations the minimum these days is usually a year, though there may be exceptions.
 
Postulancy can vary in length according to the rules of the specific institute. However, noviciate is laid down in canon law as a minimum of a year.
 
I may be mistaken but I understood that time scale to apply to women’s contemplative institutes and not to all institutes.
 
His Holiness issued an apostolic constitution, Vultum dei quaerere , found here.

The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life issued an instruction on implementing the apostolic constitution, Cor orans , found here.
 
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