Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.
Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.
Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. The monastic profession of these churches descends directly from the Egyptian desert and is the oldest continuous monastic observance in Christianity.
Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.
Kept in the Church of Greece. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Church of Ireland. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.
Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The monastic profession of these churches descends directly from the Egyptian desert and is the oldest continuous monastic observance in Christianity.
Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The monastic profession of these churches descends directly from the Egyptian desert and is the oldest continuous monastic observance in Christianity.
Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The monastic profession of these churches descends directly from the Egyptian desert and is the oldest continuous monastic observance in Christianity.
Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
The monastic profession of these churches descends directly from the Egyptian desert and is the oldest continuous monastic observance in Christianity.
Poverty, chastity and obedience are professed in the religious institutes of this church, under a rule approved by the Holy See.
Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.
Kept in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.