Archimandrite
Archimandrite ( ancient Greek ἀρχιμανδρίτης archimandrites ; of ἀρχή arché , here: "leadership, domination," and μάνδρα Mándra , here: "Monastery") refers to the Orthodox Churches , the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Catholic Churches the head of a monastery, the hierarchically is one step higher than the Hegumen , roughly comparable to the abbot of a Roman Catholic monastery .
Archimandrite is also used as a special honorary title for Eastern Orthodox priest monks .
Grand Archimandrite is also used as a special honorific title.
Well-known archimandrites
- Bartholomew of Arianz
- Viktorin Belyayev
- Anastassi Bratanowski
- Ignati Bryanchaninov
- Grigorios Dikeos
- Norbert Feldhoff
- Feofan Galinsky
- Innocent Giesel
- Lyubomyr Hussar
- Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov
- Cyprian core
- Adel Theodor Khoury
- Nikolaj Kocvár
- Cyril of Smolensk and Kaliningrad
- Evmenios from Lefke
- Varlaam Merticariu
- August Paterno
- Grigol Peradze
- Andrij Peschko
- Pavel Ponomarev
- Michael Schneider
- Andreas Thiermeyer
- German Timofejew
- Irenäus Totzke
- Dimitri Tuptalo
- Neofytos Vamvas
- Athenagoras Ziliaskopoulos
- Schenute from Atripe
- Konrad Luebeck
literature
- Julia Prinz-Aus der Wiesche: The Russian Orthodox Church in medieval Pskov (= writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe. 28). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-04890-5 , p. 105 (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 2002).
- Andreas Müller: The concept of spiritual obedience in Johannes Sinaites. On the history of the development of an element of orthodox confessional culture (= studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity. 37). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-16-148965-5 , p. 120 f. (Also: Munich, University, habilitation thesis, 2003.)