Consecrated Life

[JesuXPIPassio]

In the East, are there any religious orders the same way Latins have it? Are monks and nuns under the authority of their own orders, or are they under their local Bishop?

Are there also religious brothers and sisters who aren’t monastics? If so, are they in orders as well?

I know of a Byzantine Carmelite Order; but aside from them, I haven’t heard of Institutes of Consecrated Life for Easterners.

 

[Formosus]

Religious life in th east is a little different. Traditional it was each individual monastary as its own “order” so to speak. Now there are some orders following the western tradition, but mostly it is the autonomous monastic model. There are byzantine Franciscans, Benedictines, Basilians( completely different then the latin Basilian order . Not related at all), Redemptorists, studites(I beleive that is one).

Other then that there are several monastaries that are independant of others. Maronite monks of the Adoration and several ukranian Catholic monastic foundations come to mind.

 

[Woodstock]

In the US, most Eastern Catholic monasteries follow a Latin order and model. There are some notable exceptions among the Romanian and Ukrainian Churches. Here’s one: hrmonline.org/

They have a page on monasticism here:
hrmonline.org/ByzantineMonasticism