Census books of 1701–1703 as a source for the study of female monasteries of the Russian State by Irina Shamina

Subjects: “…the social composition of the tonsured women…”
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Principles of formation of clerical identity in Isidore’s of Seville treatise On ecclesiastical offices by Mikhail Birkin

“…The article analyses the symbolic meaning of the tonsure, which received its place in canon law through the eff orts of Isidore, as well as his interpretation of the term clerus. …”
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The Name of Yanka Vsevolodovna and the 11th–17th Centuries Old Russian Anthroponymy by Karina Grigorievna Shchipakova, Ekaterina Sergeevna Mozharovskaya

“…The possibility that Ioanna was adopted at monastic tonsure is further explored, so is the evidence that rare or exotic names such as Gavriya and Fegniya were assigned to nuns from as early as the 12th century. …”
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Historiography of the major English-language studies of death, afterlife, and memorial rites in Buddhism by Gunskii Aleksey

“…In the period of the mature and late Middle Ages, the classical Japanese funeral rite was formed, the central part of which is the posthumous tonsure of the deceased as a monk and ritual posthumous enlightenment. …”
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Archives of Orthodox Monasteries of the Middle Urals of the Synodal Period: Composition and Preservation by Marina Yu. Nechaeva

“…The loss of the archives of many monasteries of the Synodal period was reasoned by a number of reforms of the 18th century (closure of minor monasteries, reduction in the number of monastics due to restrictions and prohibitions on tonsure, staff reform of 1764). On the part of the secular and ecclesiastical authorities, no attempts were made to preserve these archives, since a purely utilitarian attitude to archival documents as to the reference component of current management practices prevailed. …”
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The ministry of the future martyr archbishop hieromartyr Seraphim (Samoilovich) in Alaska (1902‒1908) by Olga Kosik

“…On September 25, 1905, Bishop Innokenty (Pustynsky) of Alaska tonsured the young missionary into monasticism. On October 2, 1906, Fr. …”
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Liturgical life of the Finnish Orthodox Church in the time of archbishop Pavel (Olmari) by Sergey Nikitin

“…Alongside establishing active contacts with local Orthodox churches and heterodox denominations, Archbishop Pavel made use of their positive experience of liturgical traditions and adapted them to conditions of the Orthodox Church in Finland. Having been tonsured in Valaam Monastery, he was well familiar with features of liturgy of the Russian Orthodox Church; since the 1960s, he introduced certain moments from liturgical life of Greeklanguage Orthodox churches, which included abolition of obligatory confession before Communion; Liturgy of Saint James; changes in liturgical vestments and in everyday clerical apparel. …”
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“Lord has granted me true friends in the Crimea”. A letter of archbishop Dimitriy (Abashidze) to metropolitan Evlogiy (Georgievskiy) by Olga Kosik

“…In the autumn of 1922, archbishop Dimitriy was sued for participating in the tonsuring and chirotony of bishop Sergiy (Zverev), condemned and sentenced to a year of correctional labour, but was granted amnesty and returned to Toply. …”
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historiography, sources, historical science, local lore, learned monks, Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Sergievski posad, Hieromonk Arseny by Natalia Chetyrina

“…For several years, he successively passed through several stages of the monastic hierarchy: he was enrolled as a novice (1854), tonsured a monk (1856), ordained a hierodeacon (1858), and then a hieromonk (1860). …”
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