The Premonstratensian Order still exists, although it adopted a new constitution in 1883.  Nowadays it has five circaries, with 17 abbeys and five priories, as well as parishes, missions and a few colleges; in the late 20th century it recorded 997 male members and 258 female, and a judgement on its activities said: ‘this order has rendered signal service to Christianity by its missions on the banks of the Elbe and the Oder and in the Low Countries, by the institution of hospices for pilgrims, the making of roads and canals, the foundation of libraries and schools, but especially by its reform of the clergy and the foundation of parishes. It even had an influence on architecture. It has produced also a certain number of chroniclers, historians and ecclesiastical writers.’