The Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity (SHN) is an Anglican religious order for women founded in 1882 by Charles Chapman Grafton SSJE. Three sisters and six novices of the Society of St. Margaret (SSM), associated with the Cowley Fathers, left SSM in 1882 to establish the new order. Sister Ruth Margaret Vose (1826-1910) was its first mother superior. The order was incorporated in Wisconsin on May 29, 1921, and remains active in the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac.

Sister Abigail assumed office as reverend mother in 2012. The sisterhood's bishop visitor is the Right Rev. Matthew Gunter, Bishop of Fond du Lac.

Houses, daughter houses, and parochial ministries

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