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Bishop Kallistos Ware Orthodox Church IntraText CT - Text |
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is in some ways a .freak. in the Orthodox world, consisting as it does in a single monastery, Saint Catherine.s, at the foot of the Mountain of Moses. There is some dis- agreement about whether the monastery should be termed an .autocephalous. or merely an .autonomous. Church (see p. 314). The abbot, who is always an archbishop, is elected by the monks and consecrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem; the monastery is entirely independent of outside control. Sad to say, there are today fewer than twenty monks.
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