- 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...
- mid-nineteenth
century marks a
significant rise in monastery’s fortunes. The
hegumenos (abbot)
Stefan Bojović is
still remembered as
symbolising Vitovnica’s...
- family. He
arrived at Constantinople,
became a monk, and was
there made
hegumenos of the
monastery of St Demetrius. He knew
Latin well, and had considerable...
-
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...
-
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...
