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ARCHIMANDRITE (from Gr. apxcov, a rul...

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARCHIMANDRITE (from Gr. apxcov, a ruler, and µav3pa, a See also:fold or monastery)  , a See also:title in the See also:Greek See also:Church applied to a See also:superior See also:abbot, who has the supervision of several abbots and monasteries, or to the abbot of some specially See also:great and important monastery, the title for an See also:ordinary abbot being hegumenos . The title occurs for the first See also:time in a See also:letter to See also:Epiphanius, prefixed to his Panarium (c . 375), but the Lausiac See also:History of See also:Palladius may be See also:evidence that it was in See also:common use in the 4th See also:century as applied to See also:Pachomius (q.v.) . In See also:Russia the bishops are commonly selected from the archimandrites . The word occurs in the See also:Regula See also:Columbani (c . 7), and du Cange gives a few other cases of its use in Latin documents, but it never came into See also:vogue in the See also:West . Owing to intercourse with Greek and See also:Slavonic See also:Christianity, the title is sometimes to be met with in See also:southern See also:Italy and See also:Sicily, and in See also:Hungary and See also:Poland . See the See also:article in the Dictionnaire d'archeologie chretienne et de liturgie .

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