What are the most well known religious orders in Eastern Catholicism?

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In at least the Byzantine tradition, you’re just a monk or nun of a particular monastery.

Traditionally there are no “orders” as such.
 
Cormaria said:
What are the most well known eastern rite religious order?
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Sisters of St. Basil both Ruthenian and Ukrainian
Sister Servants of Mary Immculate, Ukrainian
Basilian Fathers, both Ruthenian, Ukrainian and Hungarian

There are also communities of Byzantine Franciscans for Ruthenians and also a Carmel for nuns for the Ruthenians…

Hope this helps…
 
Essentially, the monastic orders are a long standing latinization, and one not going away.

Basilian is the one I see most often.
 
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Carmelites of The Mary Immaculate , started by Bl.Father Elias Chavara (for both men and women religious )- women religous supposed to number around 6300, serving in all areas of the world ; have heard of instances where retired superiors of convents often volunteer to work in African missions !

A Blessed Feast of St Charbel Malouf to all !
 
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Another indigenous religious order , found in late 1800s, under the guidance of the Jesuit Bishop ( a belated Feast of St .Ignatius Loyola to all ! ) with both St.Francis and St.Clare as Patrons , has almost 7000 members serving worldwide , home of the first canonised saint of the land - St.Alphonsa !

What is rather amazing too is the theme of unity that seems to run through as a strong foundation , in these well built houses …

St.Alphonsa was devoted to Fr.Elias (mentioned above ) who worked well with the Latin Bishops and was a proponent of family wholeness as well as fostering indigenous values and strenghts …

The interesting aspect in St.Alphonsa 's life that also seems to speak much in this regard - her heroic virtue was evident in her resisting what she percieved as unwanted worldy alliance - marriage , because of her zeal , to be in a Higher Relationship …she too paid dearly for same , sustaining accidenatl burns on her feet …may be to be an intercessor for all those who too are suffering in various ways , in their own walks for such causes …

And the may be the loud and clear message from heaven about the special Clarist devotion of Eucharistic Adoration … how pleasing it may be for heaven , esp. in these perilous times of ours …

For all our suffering brethren all over , may the prayers of all our powerful saints bring solace and strenght , soften hardened hearts , to be able to offer and recieve forgiveness …for generations down !

Peace and mercy !
 
the Redemptorists are active in the Ukrainian Catholic church, at least in Canada. Also there is a Benedictine abbey that is ukrainian catholic somewhere in Ontario. There is also an Orthodox monastery in Michigan that is Benedictine.
 
I believe Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ and bi-ritual, helped in the creation of Byzantine Carmelites amongst the Ruthenian Catholic churches in the US.
 
There is also an Orthodox monastery in Michigan that is Benedictine.
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Holy Transfiguration Skete is in the Upper Peninsula and is Ukrainian Greek Catholic. The monks follow the Rule of St. Benedict which is not specific to any particular liturgical tradition. While not an “order”, the Studite Fathers follow the traditional Rule of the Studion and have several monasteries in Ukraine and one in Canada.

The Redemptorists are a very interesting story; Metropolitan Andrey enlisted the assistance of some Belgian Redemptorists in doing mission work both within Ukraine and in the diaspora (especially Canada). Some of the bishops formed with the Redemptorists became the standardbearers of the restoration of the authentic (non-latinized) liturgical tradition like Blesseds Mykola Charnetsky, Vasyl Velychkovsky, and Zenon Kovalyk continuing today to such bishops as Kyr +Peter Stasiuk (the chairman of the Patriarchal Catechetical Commission), and Kyr +Mikhail Koltun.
 
The Largest Eastern Catholic Religious ORDER at least in the middle east is the Lebanese Maronite Order of Monks, in which 4 Lebanese saints belonged to
they are ST CHARBEL, ST NIMATALLAH, SAINT RAFQA (IN THE FEMALE BRANCH OF THE ORDER) AND BLESSED ESTEPHAN NEHME (BEATIFIED IN 2010)

This religious order consists of around 360 monks, and around 200 nuns in its convents
was founded 1695, and is Maronite in liturgy and spirituality.

Im currently publishing some translations from eyewitnesses of the Great Saint of this Order St Charbel.

the links are here if your interested and ill add more soon.

let me know what you think

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The Daughters of Mary, of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. I only heard of them a few days ago!
It’s not a religious order -per say- but it is a missionary congregation like Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
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The Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada has and has had: Basilians, Redemptorists, Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Franciscans, Carmelites, Benedictines, Jesuits, Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate, Sisters of St Joseph, Salesians of Don Bosco and the Studites.

A number of other Eastern houses of RC religious orders exist in Ukraine and the U.S.

As has already been said, Eastern monasticism doesn’t go by the name of the founder of its Rule of Life - they are monastics who follow a given Rule, whether that of St Basil, St Benedict etc.

In the Orthodox Church, the teacher of the Jesus Prayer, St Paisius Velichkovsky, introduced a Rule of life that became wildly popular in over ten Orthodox countries (which complimented and not supplanted existing monastic rules) and introduced the recitation of the Jesus Prayer and hesychasm into their spiritual lives. This has also impacted Eastern Catholic religious orders.

Alex
 
LumenGent said:
Addai,

The Maronite Church is not a religious order.
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To my knowledge the Maronite Church actually started as a religious order in the mountains just outside of Lebanon. Gradually it started attracting lay people and developed into what we know today. I hope our Maronite brethren will correct me if I’m wrong. 😊
 
Aramis said:
Essentially, the monastic orders are a long standing latinization, and one not going away.

Basilian is the one I see most often.
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Is it really a Latinization? The Coptic Orthodox Church today has several “orders” of celibate men and women which seem to mirror the specific charisms of the Western religious orders. Granted, this movement was established only in the past century.

Also, there are three traditional forms of monasticism in Coptic Orthodoxy, each form having a different rule, as is the case in the Western Orders. For instance, there is the St. Antony Monastery in California following the Rule of St. Antony (hermitic) and there is the St. Shenouda Monastery in New York following the Rule of St. Pachomius (coenobitic).

Blessings
 
Phillip_Rolfes said:
To my knowledge the Maronite Church actually started as a religious order in the mountains just outside of Lebanon. Gradually it started attracting lay people and developed into what we know today. I hope our Maronite brethren will correct me if I’m wrong. 😊
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Well … without going to into esoterica and for the purpose at hand, I’ll say that the Maronite Church indeed has its roots in the great Monastery of Deir (or Beit) Maroun (in the Orontes valley in Syria and not really in the mountains). I believe the monastery dates from the late 4th or early 5th century, named (obviously) for Mor Moroun, and was, as were all monasteries of the time, independent. In other words, it was a monastery and not a “religious order” as such. There are three Maronite monastic orders (OLM, OAM, OMM) which were all founded in the 18th century. Prior to that time, all Maronite monasteries were independent.
 
Phillip_Rolfes said:
To my knowledge the Maronite Church actually started as a religious order in the mountains just outside of Lebanon. Gradually it started attracting lay people and developed into what we know today. I hope our Maronite brethren will correct me if I’m wrong. 😊
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You are more than correct, sir!

Alex
 
mardukm said:
Is it really a Latinization? The Coptic Orthodox Church today has several “orders” of celibate men and women which seem to mirror the specific charisms of the Western religious orders. Granted, this movement was established only in the past century.

Also, there are three traditional forms of monasticism in Coptic Orthodoxy, each form having a different rule, as is the case in the Western Orders. For instance, there is the St. Antony Monastery in California following the Rule of St. Antony (hermitic) and there is the St. Shenouda Monastery in New York following the Rule of St. Pachomius (coenobitic).
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It would seem to both a latinization and not a latinization.

The “yes” is insofar as central authority resides outside the monastery proper. But this applies far less to monks than it does to “active” religious (whether of the few canonically recognized Orders or of the various congregations and societies (aka “religious institutes”). In the case of the latter, Priors and other local superiors are subject to an “immediate superior” (the Provincial) who is in turn subject to an “immediate superior” (the General).

The “no” is insofar as central authority resides within the monastery proper. It is true that even independent monasteries are linked by a commonality of rule which is not a new concept at all, but that’s not the same thing as above. The Benedictines are a good example: abbey are sui juris, but are linked by the Rule of S Benedict. In more recent times, groups of abbeys are also linked within the various Congregations that reflect varying foci (or, if one prefers, charisms"). But even there, notice that they are “linked” to, rather than “subject” to, the Congregation. [NB: I suppose an abbey could be expelled from its Congregation for having changed its primary focus from, say, teaching to growing peaches, but that expulsion would not affect the status of the abbey itself.] The same (without the Copngregations) would apply to all true monks in the Latin Church.
 
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