Near 150 congregations of sisters, brothers and religious priests are members of CRA. They are involved in a diverse range of ministries including contemplative life, education both school and tertiary, environmental work, formation, chaplaincy, aged care and healthcare, professional standards and child protection, media, publishing and the arts, overseas missions, parish work, prison and judicial ministries, with refugees and asylum seekers, human trafficking, social services, spiritual direction and retreats, indigenous Australians, pastoral care and community work.

The Members of CRA are the Leaders of the following Religious Institutes and Societies of Apostolic Life:

• Adorers of the Blood of Christ (ASC)

• Antonine Sisters – Maronite Congregation (AS)

• Augustinian Fathers - Order of St Augustine (OSA)

• Augustinian Recollect Sisters (AR)

• Augustinian Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation (OSA)

• Augustinian Sisters, Servants of Jesus and Mary (ASJM)

• Australian Ursulines (OSU)

• Basilian Chouerite Sisters (BC)

• Basilian Nuns (OSBM)

• Benedictine Abbey – (Benedictine Nuns) (OSB)

• Benedictine Monks New Norcia (OSB)

• Benedictine Monks Arcadia (OSB)

• Benedictine Nuns Tanby (OSB)

• Blessed Sacrament Fathers (SSS)

• Blessed Sacrament Sisters - Servants of the Blessed Sacrament (SSS)

• Brigidine Sisters - Congregation of St Brigid (CSB)

• Camillians - Order of the Minister of the Infirm (MI)

• Canossian Sisters - Canossian Daughters of Charity (FdCC)

• Capuchin Franciscan Friars (OFMCap)

• Carmelites (OCarm)

• Carmelite Friars - Order of the Discalced Carmelites (OCD)

• Cenacle Sisters (RC)

• Christian Brothers (CFC)

• Cistercian Monks (OCSO)

• Claretian Fathers (CMF)

• Confraternity of Christ the Priest (CCS)

• Company of St Ursula - Secular Institute of St Angela Merici

• Congregation of Mary Queen of Peace

• Congregation of St Michael Archangel (CSMA)

• Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (DC)

• Daughters of Divine Zeal (FDZ)

• Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (FDNSC)

• Daughters of St Anne (DSA)

• Daughters of St Paul (FSP)

• De La Salle Brothers District of Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan (FSC)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Gelorup WA (OCD)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Goonellabah NSW (OCD)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Kew (VIC) (OCD)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Launceston TAS (OCD)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Nedlands WA (OCD)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Ormiston QLD (OCD)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Semaphore SA (OCD)

• Discalced Carmelite Nuns – Varroville NSW (OCD)

• Divine Word Missionaries (SVD)

• Dominican Fathers - Order of Preachers (OP)

• Dominican Sisters - Holy Cross Congregation (OP)

• Dominican Sisters – Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands (OP)

• Dominican Sisters – North Adelaide (OP)

• Dominican Sisters – Western Australia (OP)

• Dominican Sisters of Malta – Victoria (OP)

• Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ)

• Family Care Sisters (FCS)

• Franciscan Friars - Order of Friars Minor (OFM)

• Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM)

• Franciscan Missionaries of Divine Motherhood (FMDM)

• Franciscan Sisters of St Anthony (FSSA)

• Franciscan Sisters of the Heart of Jesus (FSCJ)

• Friars Minor Conventual (Greyfriars) (OFM CONV)

• Good Samaritan Sisters of the Order of St Benedict (SGS)

• Good Shepherd Sisters (RGS)

• Handmaids of Our Lord (AD)

• Holy Family Sisters (OHF)

• Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters (SSpS)

• Immaculate Heart of Mary Congregation (IHM)

• Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (RSM)

• Institute of the Sisters of Reparation (SR)

• Jesuits - Australian Province of the Society of Jesus (SJ)

• La Salette Missionaries (MS)

• Lebanese Maronite Order (LMO)

• Little Company of Mary Sisters (LCM)

• Little Sisters of the Poor (LSP)

• Loreto Sisters - Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM)

• Lovers of the Holy Cross (LHC)

• Marist Brothers – Province of Australia (FMS)

• Marist Fathers - Society of Mary (SM)

• Marist Missionary Sisters (SMSM)

• Marist Sisters - Congregation of Mary (SM)

• Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family (MSHF)

• Missionary Society of St Columban (SSC)

• Missionaries of Charity (MC)

• Missionaries of God’s Love (MGL)

• Missionaries of God’s Love Sisters (MGL)

• Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC)

• Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (MFIC)

• Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI)

• Missionary Sisters of Christ the King (MChR)

• Missionary Sisters of The Blessed Virgin, Mary Queen of the World (CMR)

• Missionary Sisters of Service (MSS)

• Missionary Sisters of St Anthony Mary Claret (MC)

• Missionary Sisters of St Peter Claver (SSPC)

• Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart (MSC)

• Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cabrini Sisters) (MSC)

• Missionary Society of St Paul (MSSP)

• Norbertine Canons - Canons Regular of Premontre (OPraem)

• Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFMConv)

• Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor (OLN)

• Pallottines - Society of the Catholic Apostolate (SAC)

• Passionist Fathers - Congregation of the Passion (CP)

• Passionist Sisters of St Paul of the Cross (CP)

• Pastorelle Sisters - Sister of Jesus Good Shepherd (SJBP)

• Patrician Brothers - Congregation of the Brothers of St Patrick (FSP)

• Pauline Fathers (OSPPE)

• Poor Clares Contemplative - Bethlehem Monastery (OSC)

• Poor Clares - Order of St Clare (OSC)

• Presentation Sisters – Lismore (PBVM)

• Presentation Sisters – QLD (PBVM)

• Presentation Sisters – TAS (PBVM)

• Presentation Sisters – VIC (PBVM)

• Presentation Sisters – WA (PBVM)

• Presentation Sisters – Wagga Wagga (PBVM)

• Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP)

• Redemptorists - Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (CSsR)

• Salesian Sisters - Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA)

• Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB)

• Salvatorian Fathers (SDS)

• Scalabrinian Fathers (CS)

• Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary (ISSM)

• Servite Friars - Order of the Servants of Mary (OSM)

• Servite Sisters (OSM)

• Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate (SSMI)

• Sisters of Charity of Australia (RSC)

• Sisters of Charity of St Anne (SCSA)

• Sisters of Compassion (DOLC)

• Sisters of the Cross and Passion (CP)

• Sisters of the Disciples of the Divine Master (PDDM)

• Sisters of Mercy – Brisbane (RSM)

• Sisters of Mercy – North Sydney (RSM)

• Sisters of Mercy – Parramatta (RSM)

• Sisters of Nazareth (CSN)

• Sisters of Our Lady of Sion (NDS)

• Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM)

• Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

• Sisters of St John of God (SSJG)

• Sisters of St Joseph Lochinvar (RSJ)

• Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (RSJ)

• Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition (SJA)

• Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (RSJ)

• Sisters of St Paul de Chartres (SPC)

• Sisters of the Resurrection (CR)

• Society of Christ (SCHR)

• Society of Christian Doctrine (Preca Community) (SDC)

• Society of St Paul (SSP)

• Society of Presentation Sisters of Australia & PNG

• Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (RSCJ)

• Spiritans - Congregation of the Holy Spirit (CSSP)

• St John of God Brothers (OH)

• The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (CSFN)

• The Sisters of the Nativity (SON)

• Ursuline Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (OMSC)

• Verbum Dei Missionaries (VDMF)

• Vincentians – Congregation of the Mission (CM)