Studites

The Monastery of Stoudios, more fully Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner "at Stoudios" (Ancient Greek: Μονή του Αγίου Ιωάννη του Προδρόμου εν τοις Στουδίου, romanized: Monē tou Hagiou Iōannē tou Prodromou en tois Stoudiou), often shortened to Stoudios, Studion or Stoudion (Latin: Studium), was a Greek Orthodoxmonastery in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The residents of the monastery were referred to as Stoudites or Studites. Although the monastery has been derelict for half a millennium, the laws and customs of the Stoudion were taken as models by the monks of Mount Athos and of many other monasteries of the Orthodox world; even today they have influence.