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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...
- Hegumen Mardarije (Serbian Cyrillic: Игумен Мардарије; fl. 1543–45) was a Serbian Orthodox monk and one of the first printers of Serbian language books...
- Up-close view of the Great Lavra Belltower with its four tiers in 2005 The hegumens of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra are listed below. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra contains...
- later periods. The years of appointment and retirement/death for some hegumens are unknown or approximated. Iakov (1653) Ioil (1653–1654) Dionisy I (1654–1655)...
- but the court refused to hear it. The following persons have served as hegumens (father superiors) of the monastery: Yefrem 1758–1781 Nazary 1781–1801...
- Novgorod. The bishop of Novgorod, Iona, twice appointed hegumens to the monastery, but these hegumens left without being able to bear the conditions of life...
- according to the date of their ordination. Ranking above a hieromonk are a hegumen and an archimandrite.[citation needed] The proper title for a hieromonk...
- the Patriarch, and 1596, when the hegumen Nicép**** succeeded Tsygiros. During the period of the first three hegumens, and up to the beginning of the 17th...
- and became a monk, taking the name Serapion. He later became the first hegumen of the monastery. Since the lands around Lake Kozhozero were not suitable...
- the Catholic Church, the mantle is a monastic garment worn by bishops, hegumens, archimandrites, and other monastics in processions and while attending...