"Typical of the Church"

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Typical of the Church or Ecclesiastical Standard or Functional Standard (typical, typekon, solemnitas, rite) is the set of instructions and provisions on how and when the sequences of the Church should be performed. Thus the Typical mentions what sequences should be held every day, whether it is Sunday, Despotic or Theometorian festival, or a memory of Saint, or a simple daily. It also determines the basic structure of the sequences, the hymns to sing, the church texts (singings, wishes, apostolic and evangelical readings, etc.) to be read, how two or three sequences are involved in one day and a multitude of other instructions. It is necessary for the proper conduct of the sequences of the Orthodox Church and complements and reconciles the content of other liturgical books, such as the Wishbook, the Oriology, the Chapel, the Months, etc.

All the provisions have been recorded in a special book, which is also called Standard.

Background
Typical is a course of the functional branch of the Theological sciences. The Standard differs from the operating one itself because it is practical and useful. The history and evolution of the Standard, however, is clearly part of the content of theoretical functionalism. The Typical also differs from the Ceremony, because it refers mainly to ritualists, namely clergy and actions and acts to be performed during the sequences, while the Typical refers primarily and primarily to chanters. But many points are common in Typical, Functional and Ceremony.

The history of the Typical is lost in the depths of the early Christian centuries. Excerpts (orders) and descriptions from typically the 3rd and 4th centuries have been saved, but the earliest completed work of Typical that has been saved to date is a 9th-century paternal manuscript. He is thought to save text older than him by at least a century.

Over the centuries two main traditions of church formal, the Typical of Constantinople (a parish type) and the Typical of Jerusalem (a monastic type) were formed. Other local traditions (Alexandria, Antioch, Sinai, Eastern Churches, etc.) were merged or absorbed into these two Typical or declined. From about the 9th-10th century we have a composition of Constantine and the Jerusalem Standard, from which came around the 11th-12th century the Typical of the Lavra of St. Saturday Jerusalem. This is considered the basis of today's church Typical. It prevailed and was applied throughout the Orthodox Church. Its various local variations gave today's Typicals (Holy Mount, Slavic Churches, Patmos, etc.)

In the 19th century the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople published three publications of the Typical. It is based mainly on the episolymitic Typical of the Lavra of St. Savva, but also has many elements from the Constantino-pulitic Typical. The