archimandrite
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- noun
- /ˌɑrkɪˈmændraɪt/
- Specialized
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archimandrita
- Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, head of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow.
- Archimandrite Varsonofii
Examples
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The most complete account of these events is the combined vitae of Kazan's first archbishop, Gurii, and one of the elite churchmen who accompanied him, Archimandrite Varsonofii.
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Archimandrite Georgiy was appointed to oversee the newly established monastery in the mountains.
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At the time, Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov stood "at the center of a swirling argument about the church's power and its possible influence on Putin.
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"We recited the Gloria in Excelsis, Bea spoke, and Archimandrite Panteleimon Rodopoulos spoke in the name of the observers.
Academic text (2013) -
This unusual circumstance supports the hypothesis that those who reconstructed the church less than two centuries after Shenoute's death were attempting to remain faithful to a monument that they knew had been built by their famous archimandrite.
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Arzamas's Spaso-Preobrazhenskii Monastery, for example, received a charter in 1614 instructing the archimandrite to construct granaries in two places on its land, one in town and one outside of it, in order to provide a place for merchants to store their goods.
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While the icon soon became the center of the city's important miracle cult, it in fact arrived in 1568, with Archimandrite Ieremii of Kazan's Spaso-Preobrazhenskii Monastery, who brought the icon from Moscow.
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These include the wealthy Latin patron Paulinus of Nola (Italy), two anonymous members of the Pachomian monasteries in Egypt, and the Egyptian archimandrite Shenoute.
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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, an archimandrite is responsible for leading a group of monasteries and their communities.
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The archimandrite delivered a powerful sermon about faith and devotion to the assembled monks.
Synonyms
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9.0
A monk who leads other monks in a monastery
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A senior church leader in charge of several churches or a cathedral
A priest who leads a monastery in the Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic churches
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
archimandrite = archi + mandra + ite
The word is a direct ecclesiastical borrowing (archi- + mandra + -ite) whose parts are not productive or recognizable to average learners, so the meaning cannot be derived from its components.
Etymology
Archimandrite comes from Greek parts archi- meaning 'chief' (as in archbishop) and mandra meaning 'fold' or 'enclosure', like a sheepfold for a group. So an archimandrite is the 'chief of the enclosure', the senior priest who is in charge of a monastery or group of monasteries.