Lexicon

• Abbey
  An independent cloister which is escorted by an abbot or an abbess.
  
  
• Abbot
  From the Aramaic: Abba = Father. Leader of a monastery or an abbey which is chosen by the order brothers, often on lifetime.
  
  
• Cloister
  According to concept an outwardly finished community with monastic ascetic status. Architecturally autonomous complex with various functional buildings.
  
  
• Monk Life
  A for religious reasons mostly unpropertied and always unmarried controlled life-style which is realized in monastic communities or only as an hermitting way.
  
  
• Orthodox Church
  One of three main branches of the Christianity which is enclosed by more than 250 million members in the whole world and is divides further into Catholic-orthodox, Greek-orthodox and eastern orthodox belief.
  
  
• Orthodoxy
  From the Greek: Orthodox = Legal Believer. In the Christian and Judaism as well as in the Islam by the written interpretation literal applied faith.