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ACOEMETI (Gr. awl p7ror, sleepless)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 150 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACOEMETI (Gr. See also:awl p7ror, sleepless)  , an See also:order of Eastern monks who celebrated the divine service without intermission See also:day or See also:night . This was done by dividing the communities into choirs, which relieved each other by turn in the See also:church . Their first monastery was established on the See also:Euphrates, in the beginning of the 5th See also:century, and soon afterwards one was founded in See also:Constantinople . Here also, c . 460, was founded by the consular Studius the famous monastery of the Studium, which was put in the hands of the See also:Acoemeti and became their See also:chief See also:house, so that they were sometimes called Studites . At Agaunum (St See also:Maurice in the See also:Valais) a monastery was founded by the Burgundian See also:king See also:Sigismund, in 515, in which the perpetual See also:office was kept up; but it is doubtful whether this had any connexion with the Eastern Acoemeti . The Constantinopolitan Acoemeti took a prominent See also:part in the Christological controversies of the 5th and 6th centuries, at first strenuously opposing Acacius, See also:patriarch of Constantinople, in his attempted See also:compromise with the See also:monophysites; but after-wards, in Justinian's reign, falling under ecclesiastical censure for Nestorian tendencies . See the See also:article in See also:Dictionary of See also:Christian Antiquities; Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexicon (2nd ed.) ; and See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (3rd ed.) ; also the See also:general histories of the See also:time . (E . C .

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