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In some monastic traditions the Great Schema is only given to monks and nuns on their death bed, while in others they may be elevated after as little as 25 years of service.
If a bearer of some monastic title acquires the Great Schema, his title incorporates the word "schema". For example, a hieromonk of Great Schema is called '''hieroschemamonk''', [[archmandritearchimandrite]] becomes '''schema-archmandritearchimandrite''', [[hegumen]] - '''schema-hegumen''', etc. In Russian tradition, in such cases the part "schema" is commonly truncated to "схи" (sche), and correspondingly the titles are spelled as схимонах, иеросхимонах, схиархимандрит, схиигумен.
==Coptic Orthodox monastic degrees==
