section_path: Theology/Christian life/Eastern Orthodox Order of Saint Benedict
section_name: Eastern Orthodox Order of Saint Benedict
paragraph_text: Eastern Orthodox Order of Saint Benedict
  
  The Order of Saint Benedict is an affiliation of monastics of the Eastern Orthodox Church who strive to live according to the Rule of St Benedict. The equivalent monastic order in the Catholic Church is known as the Order of Saint Benedict, abbreviated as OSB.
  
  Within the United States, the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America has at least one Benedictine monastery.
  
  Several Benedictine monastic houses, sketes and hermitages fit within the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia, all of which are stavropegial directly under the Metropolitan. An oblate programme exists for Orthodox laity Saint Benedict Russian Orthodox Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.