What is the Church hierarchy?It is an ordered system, which determines the location of each church minister, his duties.The system hierarchy in the church is very complicated, and it was born in 1504 after the event, which was called "the Great Schism of the church."After that Orthodox churches had the opportunity to develop autonomously, independently.
First of all, the church hierarchy selects white and black monk.Representatives of the black clergy are called to lead an ascetic life as possible.They can not marry, live in the world.These ranks are doomed to lead a wandering or isolated life.
White clergy can lead a privileged life.
ROC hierarchy implies that (in accordance with the Code of honor), the head of the Russian Orthodox Church is the patriarch of Constantinople, bearing the official symbolic title of the Ecumenical Patriarch.
However, formally the Russian Church does not obey him.The head of the Church hierarchy says the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.It takes a higher level, but the power and control exercise in union with the Holy Synod.It consists of 9 members, who are selected on a different basis.By tradition, metropolitans Krutitskii, Minsk, Kiev, St. Petersburg is its permanent members.Five of the remaining members of the Synod invited, and their bishops should not exceed six months.Permanent member of the Synod is the Chairman of internal church authorities.
The next most important step in the hierarchy of the church calls the higher ranks who run dioceses (administrative-territorial deanery).They are combining the name of the bishops.These include:
- metropolitans;
- bishops;
- archimandrites.
bishops obey the priests who are the main local, urban or other parishes.By occupation, the duties entrusted to them, priests are divided into priests and archpriest.The person who is responsible for direct management of the arrival, is the title of Rector.
Already it is subject to the younger clergy: deacons and priests, whose duty is to help the Rector Major, another, higher spiritual reasons.
speaking about the clergy, we should not forget that the church hierarchy (not to be confused with the church hierarchy!) Allow several different interpretations of spiritual titles and thus give them different names.Hierarchs of the Church involves the division of the Church in the Eastern and Western rites, their smaller species (eg, post-Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, etc.)
All these titles refer to the secular clergy.Black church hierarchy has a more stringent requirements for people to take orders.The highest stage is black monastic great schema.It implies a complete alienation from the world.In Russian monasteries the great hermit live apart from everyone, not engage in any of obedience, but is carried out day and night in unceasing prayer.Sometimes it accepted the great schema become hermits and limit his life many optional vows.
Precedes great schema Malaya.It also implies the performance of a number of mandatory and optional vows, the most important of which are: celibacy and non-possessiveness.Their task - to prepare a monk to take the Great Schema, fully cleanse it from sin.
take minor schema can monks rassophore.This is the lowest level of black monks, which come immediately after the vows.
Before each hierarchical level monks held special ceremonies, they changed the name and assign the patron saint.If you change the title tougher vows change attire.
