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=== Eastern Orthodox === <!-- This section is linked from [[Canonical hours]] --> {{main|Eastern Christian monasticism|Degrees of Eastern Orthodox monasticism}} [[File:Meteora Monastery - panoramio (1).jpg|thumb|The [[Monastery of Varlaam]] in [[Meteora]], Thessaly, Greece.]] [[File:Athos 13.jpg|thumb|[[Mount Athos]].]] In the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] and [[Eastern Catholic Church]], both monks and nuns follow a similar [[ascetic]] discipline, and even their [[religious habit]] is the same (though nuns wear an extra veil, called the ''[[apostolnik]]''). Unlike [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] monasticism, the Eastern Orthodox do not have distinct religious orders, but a single monastic form throughout the Eastern Orthodox Church. Monastics, male or female, live away from the world, in order to pray for the world. Monasteries vary from the very large to the very small. There are three types of monastic houses in the Eastern Orthodox Church: * A [[cenobium]] is a monastic community where monks live together, work together, and pray together, following the directions of an abbot and the elder monks. The concept of the cenobitic life is that when many men (or women) live together in a monastic context, like rocks with sharp edges, their "sharpness" becomes worn away and they become smooth and polished. The largest monasteries can hold many thousands of monks and are called ''[[lavra]]s''. In the cenobium the [[daily office]], work and meals are all done in common. * A [[skete]] is a small monastic establishment that usually consist of one elder and two or three disciples. In the skete most prayer and work are done in private, coming together on Sundays and [[feast day]]s. Thus, skete life has elements of both solitude and community, and for this reason is called the "middle way". * A [[hermit]] is a monk who practises asceticism but lives in solitude rather than in a monastic community. One of the great centres of Eastern Orthodox monasticism is [[Mount Athos]] in [[Greece]], which, like [[Vatican City]], is self-governing. It is located on an isolated peninsula approximately {{convert|20|mi|km}} long and {{convert|5|mi|km}} wide, and is administered by the heads of the 20 monasteries. Today the population of the Holy Mountain is around 2,200 men only and can only be visited by men with special permission granted by both the Greek government and the government of the Holy Mountain itself.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
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