How To Use Archimandrite In A Sentence
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The title "archimandrite" appears to be given now to abbots of the more important monasteries and also sometimes as a personal title of distinction to others.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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There was an intermediate period (from about the sixth to the ninth centuries) during which the title archimandrite was given as a purely personal honour to certain hegumenoi without involving any exemption from the monastery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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And everything, one may say, was at his beck and call, and even those in authority hindered him in nothing, and the archimandrite thanked him for his zeal: he gave freely of his substance to the monastery, and when the fit came upon him he sighed and groaned over his soul and was troubled not a little over the life to come.
A Raw Youth
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A staff is also granted to archimandrites and abbots, as they are the heads of monasteries.
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A ukase in 1763 limited the composition of the Synod to three archbishops, two archimandrites, and one archpriest.
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Greek Orthodox archimandrites, bishops (including married Arab priests) and their followers will elect three candidates from among the 15 in the first round.
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And he remembered all whom he had injured, and desired to make them restitution; he began to give away money without stint, so that his wife and the archimandrite even had to restrain him; “for that is enough,” they said.
A Raw Youth
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The synod is composed of the patriarch, metropolitans, provincial bishops, as well as the titular bishops and archimandrites appointed by the patriarch.
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Asia Minor and among the Greeks generally he was called archimandrite
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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We also were accompanied by many bishops: Feodor of Rostov, Efrosin of Suzdal, Jeremiah the Greek, the Bishop of Zvenigorod, the archimandrites, the igumens, and monks.
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However, Theodore the bishop, and John, and Julian and John the presbyters, and Palladius and Serapion the deacons, and Andrew the Great, and Paul the Sophist, with about two hundred archimandrites, were selected as representatives; and they entered the great church to have an interview with Peter.
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The archimandrite was the center of the Union, but Hurkyl was one of the keystones of that group, as well as Feldon and, despite himself, Drafna.
The Brothers' War
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‘Look at those clouds in the East,’ said the deputy archimandrite, deliberately changing the subject.
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Thus at the first Council of Constantinople, AD 448, 23 archimandrites or abbots sign, with 30 bishops.
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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
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On Monday, the second day of Easter, the six Bulgarians attended a specially-organised Easter mass, led by the archimandrite of Tripoli, Makarios.
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The archimandrite marvelled, but with that he went away.
A Raw Youth
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At the bottom of a letter sent by the archimandrites of Arabia to the ‘orthodox’ bishops about the middle of the 6th century, there is also the signature of David, abbot of the monastery of Bitylion; he signed in his own hand.
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Originally there seems to have been no appreciable difference in the signification of these two words, but after the period of Justinian the title archimandrite was jealously reserved for the superiors of the older or of the more important monasteries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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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
