Eastern Orthodoxy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Monasticism === {{Main|Eastern Orthodox monasticism|Degrees of Eastern Orthodox monasticism}} [[File:Katharinenkloster Sinai BW 2.jpg|thumb|left|[[Saint Catherine's Monastery]] (6th century), [[Sinai Peninsula]], [[Egypt]]|220x220px]] The Eastern Orthodox Church places emphasis and awards a high level of prestige to traditions of [[monasticism]] and [[asceticism]] with roots in [[Early Christianity]] in the [[Near East]] and Byzantine [[Anatolia]]. The most important centres of Christian Orthodox monasticism are [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]] in the [[Sinai Peninsula]] ([[Egypt]]) and [[Mount Athos]] in [[Northern Greece]]. All bishops are monks; if a man who is not a monk is elected a bishop, he must be tonsured a monk before he may be consecrated. Customarily, also, a man must either be a monk or be married to be ordained. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page