archimandrites

I started the book on holiday last year, got about a quarter of the way through and then just stalled, overloaded by alien names - hierchons, archimandrites, mercatorias and shrievalities.

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At present there are in the Greek Church two kinds of archimandrites, the original monastic officers exercising jurisdiction in their respective monasteries, and honorary archimandrites and well-educated priests attached to chanceries of the great partiarchates (e.g. Constantinople), or at the head of certain branches of temporal administration; in a word, not unlike the Roman prelates or the principal officers of a Western diocese.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Their present clergy is composed of one archbishop, one bishop, 6 proto-priests, 89 secular priests, 2 archimandrites, 2 hegumens, and 18 monastic priests, making a total of 119, while they also exercise jurisdiction over the Serbian and Syrian Orthodox clergy besides.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Eustathius of Berytus, and Basil of Seleucia in Cicilia, former partisans of Dioscurus in the Robber Council of Ephesus, were pardoned and admitted to the sessions; an investigation was made into the orthodoxy of a number of bishops from Egypt, and of a number of monks and archimandrites suspected of Eutychianism; finally a dispute between Photius of Tyre and Eustathius of Berytus concerning the territorial extent of their respective jurisdiction was adjudicated.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Thus, in 448, twenty-three archimandrites or Abbots assisted at that held by Flavian, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and with thirty bishops signed the condemnation of Eutyches.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

There is a formal rite for the appointments and creation of these officers, performed with more solemnity in the installment of monastic archimandrites.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The metropolitan is elected by a special synod consisting of the active bishops, all archimandrites and arch-priests of the subdivisions of Servia, the head of the ecclesiastical seminary of St. Saba, and several lay adherents of the Orthodox Church.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Originally the archimandrite seems to have been only the superior or abbot of his own monastery; gradually, however, he came to exercise authority over a number of monasteries and by the eleventh the archimandrites of such monastic centres as Mount Athos, and Mount Olympus in Bithynia, were the equivalent of our Western abbots-general.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The monastic archimandrites have also the right to the pastoral staff, and to a pectoral mantle having four squares of embroidered cloth called "the tables of the law".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

This form of rosary is still used among the monks in the various Greek Churches, although archimandrites and bishops use a very ornamental form of rosary with costly beads.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913