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Definition of Hegumen
1. Noun. (Christianity) The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hegumen
1. the head of a monastery [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hegumen
Literary usage of Hegumen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Holy Eastern Church by John Mason Neale (1873)
"The present Patriarch, Methodius, wishing to restore this monastery, made a happy
choice of a hegumen for it in the Priest-monk Athanasius, ..."
2. A History of the Church of Russia by Andrew Nicholaevich Mouravieff (1842)
"... were also contemporaries of Basil; while the great Daniel, the hegumen of ...
of Novogorod and Joseph hegumen of Volokolamsk, who had found in him no ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Sometimes the same person was styled archimandrite and hegumen indifferently ;
but, in general, the archimandrite presided over several monasteries, ..."
4. Anecdota Oxoniensia by Abû Sâlih, Jephet Ibu Ali, Ad. Neubauer, G. H. Gwilliam, F. Crawford Burkitt, John F. Stenning, B. T. A. Evetts, Saadiah, H. J. Mathews, Wallis Budge, D. S. Margoliouth, W. E. Crum, Robert Henry Charles (1895)
"The hegumen is properly, of course, the abbot of a monastery; and the office of
ordination of the hegumen refers entirely to the duties of an abbot; ..."
5. Lives of eminent Russian prelates: i. Nikon, sixth patriarch of Moscow (by R by Robinson Thornton (1854)
"S. Demetrius was but for a short period hegumen of the ... The following February,
when Theodosius, the hegumen of ..."
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