skete
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Early history
- Locations of the earliest Skete monasteries
- Notable early Skete leader Saint Macarius
- Daily life in early Skete monasteries
- Political hierarchy
- Economies of the early Skete communities
- Church controversies in early Skete communities
- Development
- See also
- References
- External links
280px|thumb|St Nicholas skete of the Valaam Monastery thumb|Russian Old Believers in the Sharpansky Skete (the [[Kerzhenets River Woods) in 1897]]
A skete () is a monastic community in Eastern Christianity that allows relative isolation for monks, but also allows for communal services and the safety of shared resources and protection. It is one of four types of early monastic orders, along with the eremitic, lavritic and coenobitic, that became popular during the early formation of the Christian Church.
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