Cenobitic monasticism
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Cenobitic monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life. Often in the West the community belongs to a religious order, and the life of the cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious
Coptic icon of Pachomius the Great, the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism
Lavra
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A lavra or laura is a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center. Lavra monasteries operate within the Orthodox and
Cenobitic monasticism
…religious rule, a collection of precepts. It is one of several forms of monasticism, distinguished from the eremitic life of a hermit, or the skete and lavritic forms developed in Eastern Christianity. The English words cenobite and cenobitic are derived, via Latin, from the Greek words koinos (κοινός, lit…
The Holy Mountains Lavra near the city of Sviatohirsk, Ukraine