He was called to be a professed monk of the Order.

At this time, the community also included nine temporally professed monks.

The abbot is chosen by the monks from among the fully professed monks.

He served as subprior, prior and dean of the junior professed monks, not yet in final vows.

The community is made up of professed monks and nuns, novices, and 'alongsiders'.

Simple Vows (3 years) becomes a junior professed monk and wears the full Carthusian habit.

But to suspect that God as well as Nature had beckoned him to become a professed monk of the Order?

At this time, the abbey also included 17 temporally professed monks, two novices, one oblate, and ten postulants.

Within the nine years of his arrival in the United States, Wimmer had built up a strong monastic foundation with over 200 professed monks.

The secular affairs of the house were committed to his brother, Wulfric, "so that neither himself nor any of the professed monks might break enclosure."

At this time, the conentual priory also included ten temporally professed monks, four of them studying theology in Davao.

The choir stalls fill up, the professed monks in their white habits, the Novices in their black cloaks.

Saint John's is the second-largest Benedictine abbey in the Western Hemisphere, with 153 professed monks.

Though the Congregation's European houses currently possess the greatest number of solemnly professed monks, these will soon be outnumbered by the African monasteries.

Today the monastic community of Poblet is composed of 29 professed monks, 1 regular oblate, 1 novice and 2 familiars.

He is appointed by the abbot, generally after a consultation in chapter with the professed monks of the monastery, and may be removed by him at any time.

They participate in all areas of monastic life but sleep in a special section of the guesthouse instead of with the professed monks in the cloister.

Oblates are individuals, either laypersons or clergy, normally living in general society, who, while not professed monks or nuns, have individually affiliated themselves with a monastic community of their choice.

Today, the monastic community is made up of 3 solemnly professed monks of Ampleforth and two simply professed Zimbabwean monks, living according to the Rule of St. Benedict.

By 1166 Samson was a fully professed monk, and in the years following he filled a number of offices - those of sub-sacrist, guestmaster, pittancer, third prior, master of novices, and master of the workmen.

For instance in some Byzantine monastic practices two levels of fully professed monk or nun exist: those of the "little habit" and those other of the "great habit", these being more senior and not having to do manual labor.

In the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria there are only two degrees of professed monks, corresponding to the Rassaphore combined with the Stavrophore and the Great Schema (nothing equivalent to separate Stavrophore status in the Coptic Orthodox tradition).