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- 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...
- where he died, probably in 835.: 55–56  Eustratios of Agauros, a monk and hegumenos of the Agauros Monastery at the foot of Mount Trichalikos, near Prusa's...
- Constantine V (r. 741–775); after his death however, some of them returned. Hegumenos (abbot) Sabas of Stoudios zealously defended the Orthodox doctrines against...
- Gavriil Marinakis (Gr****: Γαβριήλ Μαρινάκης, c. 1826 - 1866) was the hegumenos of Arkadi Monastery and a fighter of the Cretan Revolution of 1866. He...
- of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor, fl. 783 – 824), Byzantine monk and hegumenos Nicetas the Patrician (Nicetas Monomachos, c. 761 – 836), Byzantine eunuch...
- 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...
- katholikon. The noted Gr**** Resistance member Germanos Dimakos was abbot (hegumenos) of the monastery until 1940. Since 1985, the monastery also houses the...