How do you become a monk on Mount Athos?

How do you become a monk on Mount Athos? Mount Athos is not a monastic institution, but an autonomous monastic polity. You don’t become a monk “of Mount Athos,” but of one specific monastery or hermitage. There are twenty monasteries in Mount Athos, ranked in an unalterable hierarchical order according to their date of foundation, … Continue reading How do you become a monk on Mount Athos?