Typikon

Typikon refers to the written definition of liturgical or other regulations that are necessary for the life spiritual, especially monastic communities, especially the Byzantine Rite. Separately or in combination, meet the founder established orders of monastic life ( typika ktetorika ) and regulations for worship in Ordinary Time ( " Synaxaria "). The Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine rite follow, especially in the liturgical life and in such a fast, often originally monastic, Typika. As " Typikon " (alternatively " Synaxarion " ) refers to the liturgical order of cathedrals, such as the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople Opel (old " Typikon the Great Church ", aka " Synaxarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae ").

Most widespread found the liturgical Typikon of Palestinian monastery Mar Saba, which was form a guideline for churches of Byzantine tradition in several times revised Constantinople. Because of the difficult exercises of monastic connection with the situation in the parish churches (1838 and 1888 ) were created in the adapted Ecumenical Patriarchate revisions in the 19th century, which circulate under the name " Typikon the Great Church of Christ."