Order of Saint Benedict (Orthodox)

The Order of Saint Benedict is a loose affiliation of monastics of the Orthodox Church who strive to live according to the Rule of St Benedict. While there is no actual incorporated body known as the "Order of Saint Benedict", Orthodox Benedictines enjoy good relations with each other, which frequently cross jurisdictional boundaries. Technically, there are no "Monastic Orders" in Orthodoxy, so Orthodox Benedictines are often known as "Orthodox Community of Saint Benedict" OCSB-Ro where the "Ro" refers to their lineage from Saint Romould. Their Roman Catholic equivalent are OSB-Cam where the "Cam" refers to their Camaldolese lineage.

There are currently at several Benedictine monastic houses, sketes and hermitages within the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia all stravopegial with each directly under the Metropolitan. An oblate programme exists also for Orthodox laity Saint Benedict Russian Orthodox Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

There is also the Abbey of the Holy Name with its daughter house of St John the Theologian, which is under the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles.

Within the United States of America, the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, has at least one Benedictine monastery, as well as a number of parishes that run an oblate programme.

The Benedictine monastic tradition began with St Benedict of Nursia himself, who was a Christian monk in the 6th century. Influenced by the writings of Saints Basil the Great and John Cassian, he composed a monastic rule for the ordering of the life of monastic communities in the West, rather than adopting one of the many rules that existed at the time but which had been composed for monks in a very different climate, with different foods available, and so forth. The liturgical traditions he enumerated conformed to the Roman Rite of the local church; which was neither as elaborate or as legislated as it later became.

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