- Hegumen,
hegumenos, or
igumen (Gr****: ἡγούμενος, trans. hēgoúmenos), is the
title for the head of a
monastery in the
Eastern Orthodox and
Eastern Catholic...
- used in
Eastern Christianity,
originally referred to a
superior abbot (
hegumenos, Gr****: ἡγούμενος,
present participle of the verb
meaning "to lead") whom...
- on the
eastern wall
commemorates the same
patriarch and his pupil, the
hegumenos Paul, as
first and
second ktetores respectively.
Recent analysis using...
- mid-nineteenth
century marks a
significant rise in monastery’s fortunes. The
hegumenos (abbot)
Stefan Bojović is
still remembered as
symbolising Vitovnica’s...
- Barada) in 779 AD.: 34
According to the
Synaxarion of Constantinople, the
hegumenos Michael of Zobe and thirty-six of his
monks at the
Monastery of Zobe near...
-
Gavriil Marinakis (Gr****: Γαβριήλ Μαρινάκης, c. 1826 - 1866) was the
hegumenos of
Arkadi Monastery and a
fighter of the
Cretan Revolution of 1866. He...
-
Constantine V (r. 741–775);
after his
death however, some of them returned.
Hegumenos (abbot)
Sabas of
Stoudios zealously defended the
Orthodox doctrines against...
- name Germanos. In 1940, when
Greece entered World War II, he was the
hegumenos of the
Agathonos Monastery near
Ypati in Phthiotis.
After the
start of...
-
Longinus (Gr****: Λογγῖνος; fl. 451–457) was the
hegumenos (superior or abbot) of the Enaton, a
monastic community outside Alexandria in
Roman Egypt. He...
-
triclinium of the
Lateran Palace in Rome, in
which is
placed the seat of the
hegumenos or abbot. This
apartment is
chiefly used as a
meeting place, with the...
