1. The Monasteries Committee prepared the text of the pledge of a monk who is be ordinated a priest, to present it to the Holy Synod headed by Pope Shenouda III Appendix No. 2The Synod approved this text...

It is not permissible for monks who left monasticism and married in non-Orthodox churches to receive the Eucharist.

The Holy Synod stressed the importance of abiding by the previous decree of monks not taking confessions of women and girls in the cities where married priests serve, and in monasteries. Also, monks m...

Every monk who spent 6 years or more in service must go to the monastery to spend a period of spiritual isolation for a year. Any exceptions for the monks who serve in the diaspora will be decided by...

The Holy Synod approved the following recommendations that were mentioned in the report of the Synodal Committee for Monasteries Affairs:

1. The warning to each applicant of monasticism is that he will no...

Concerning the regulations (laws) of monasticism: It was mentioned in the report of the Monasteries Committee to the assembly of the Holy Synod that was on Monday morning 12/06/2000 in the meeting of ...

The Holy Synod approved the following recommendations made by the Monasteries Affairs Committee:

1. Every monastery creates a file for each monastic applicant, just as it does for every monk, and it conta...

Based on the recommendations of the Monasteries Committee and the approval of His Holiness the Pope, the Holy Synod decided the following:

1. Regarding the Monastery of St Mary in Hawawish:

a.     The ordi...

The Holy Synod decided the following:

First:

1. That the Metropolitans and Bishops pay attention to the priests, especially the fathers of confession in their Diocese, to warn their sons and daughters who ...

A copy of a file of the monks who have been sentenced or have received complaints against them is to be handed to the Secretariat of His Holiness the Pope.

This is in addition to those [files] which ar...