Since the forest resource of Ethiopia is under great treat. Government and non governmentalrnorganizations are lIying to improve the condition. But on the ground their effort is notrnsuccessjitl. This study concerned about the role of institution in forest management. Becauserncurrently institutions are serving as a solution for natural resource management problem inrngeneral and forest in particular .For that mailer the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is playingrngreatest role in managing the ruminant forest resource of Ethiopia. However, this doesn'trnmean that the rules and regulations concerning forest management in the EOTC totailyrnrespected by the sounding communities. Rather, there is a challenge in managing thernmonastelY forest also. In order to investigate the role of Debre Libanos MonastelY in forestrnmanagement different tools of data collection like: structured questioner, focus grouprndiscussion and key informant interview were held. Then the data was analyzed using SPSSrnprogram. The result indicated that Debre Libanos Monastery played the greatest role inrnmanaging its forest resources. However, the result of the study reveled that there are goodrnand bad practices that enhance and hinder forest management by the monastery. Besides thernmonastelY formulate rules concerning forest management and try to enforce it. Nevertheless,rnas the forest is a common pool resource characteristic of CPR excludability andrnsubtractability are problems in managing the monastelY forest also. On the other hand onernof the allributes of the community such as user group size and hetroginty doesn't affect fo restrnmanagement by Debre Libanos Monastery. On the other hand dependability of the localrncommunity on forest resource is velY low. It was also found thaI 'Gizit' is a velY importantrnreligious value that plays the main role in management of Ihe monaslelY forest. There fore,rnIhese church forests didn'l come 10 exisl just by mere chance. Results indicated that it is byrnthe commitment of the church based on strong theological thoughts and a biblical basis. Itrnwas found that, most of the time, the local community respects church forests, and considersrnthe church as a central institution. In general, from the results, it was concluded that forestsrnconserved by EOTC and its tradition provide an opportunity to establish conservation sitesrnforforest resources and distribution of seedlings of indigenous tree.