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Examples of archimandrite
archimandrite
As an archimandrite at Constantinople, Eutychius was well respected by Mennas.
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Archimandrite Ephrem Lash criticized Boswell's book in the February 1995 issue of Sourozh.
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In 1870, Nicholas was made an archimandrite and moved to Tokyo, and began an extensive missionary effort.
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In Egypt, the first home of monasticism, the jurisdiction of the abbot, or archimandrite, was but loosely defined.
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About this time Severus apparently joined a Non-Chalcedonian brotherhood near Eleutheropolis under the archimandrite Mamas.
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Alexius appointed Nikon archimandrite, or prior, of the wealthy Novospassky monastery at Moscow, and in 1648 metropolitan of Great Novgorod.
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The tablets on the Bishop's mantle may be more finely embroidered or made of more costly material than those on the mantle of an archimandrite.
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At about the same time, another group of Greek-Catholics arose, centred on an archimandrite who was a nephew of the Orthodox metropolitan.
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In contemporary usage such a non-monastic priest is usually tonsured to the monastic state, and then elevated to archimandrite, at some point prior to his consecration to the episcopacy.
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- Abbot: the superior of an abbey of monks
- The title Archimandrite (Greek: - archimandrites), primarily used in the Eastern Orthodox and the Eastern Catholic churches, originally referred to a superior abbot whom a bishop appointed to supervise several 'ordinary' abbots (each styled hegumenos) and monasteries, or to the abbot of some ...
- The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church; An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest
- (Gr. "head of the flock or cloister"). A celibate presbyter of high rank assisting the bishop or appointed abbot in a monastery. In the Russian tradition some Archimandrites have the right to wear the mitre and the mantle (mitrophoros).
