Coptic monasticism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 12/11/2018

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Coptic monasticism

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Coptic Monasticism is claimed to be the original form of Monasticism as St. Anthony of Egypt became the first one to be called "monk" (Gr: μοναχός) and he was the first to established a Christian monastery which is now known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony in the Red Sea area.  St. Anthony's Monastery (also known as the Monastery of Abba Antonious) is now the oldest monastery in the world.
Although Saint Anthony's way of life was focused on solidarity,  Saint Pachomius the Cenobite, a Copt from Upper Egypt, established communal monasticism in his monasteries in upper Egypt which laid the basic monastic structure for many of the monasteries today in many monastic orders (even outside Coptic Orthodoxy).