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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Gr. Ch., the head of a monastery.
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The archimandrite has become a person of superior rank and takes precedence of a hegumenos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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(Kievsky Laura) founded in 1062 by a St. Anthony, the largest of all; the Troitzsky Laura near Moscow, founded by St. Sergius in 1335 and now the home of the first "Ecclesiastical Academy" (Seminary) in the empire; the Metropolitan of Moscow is its hegumenos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In the ninth century every diocese (presumably the cenobites of every diocese) or district formed a sort of federation under the presidency of a hegumenos known as the exarch or archimandrite.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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These officials, who usually formed the synaxis, acted as a restraint on the authority of the hegumenos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The laurœ, and convents, had each its own superior, sometimes called archimandrite, and sometimes hegumenos, terms synonymous in the beginning, but soon differentiated.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The Monotheletes then grouped themselves around the hegumenos of the Maronite monastery, John (died 707).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The choice of a bishop for the Ruthenian Greek Catholics fell upon the Right Rev. Stephen Soter Ortynski, a Basilian monk, hegumenos of the monastery of St. Paul, Michaelovka, Galicia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The head of each monastery is the archimandrite, or hegumenos (abbot), elected by the monks and confirmed by the bishop of the diocese.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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He arrived at Constantinople, became a monk, and was there made hegumenos of the monastery of St. Demetrius.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The election, the rights and duties of the hegumenos and other dignitaries remain as they were before the schism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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