Lexicographical Neighbors of Hegumenos
Literary usage of Hegumenos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Residence at Constantinople in the Year 1827: With Notes to the Present by Josiah Brewer (1830)
"... —Property—Ecclesiastical prison—Superstitious resort of the sick—Brutal conduct
of an hegumenos—A benevolent monk— ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The lauree, and convents, had each its own superior, sometimes called archimandrite,
and sometimes hegumenos, terms synonymous in the beginning, ..."
3. Travels in Crete by Robert Pashley (1837)
"THE venerable hegumenos tells me that the monastery possessed annals of its
history, which were burnt during the revolution. At present its members are only ..."
4. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1900)
"That a Bishop or hegumenos ought not to alienate any part of the suburban estate
of the ... And the bishop or hegumenos doing this shall be turned out, ..."
5. Travels in Greece and Albania by Thomas Smart Hughes (1830)
"After service, the hegumenos accompanied me to the precipice where our tent ...
The hegumenos, out of compliment to his English guests, had brought with him ..."
6. Researches in the Highlands of Turkey: Including Visits to Mounts Ida, Athos by Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1869)
"He called to the hegumenos, and once again he called him, ‘Come down, my Lord
hegumenos, we want you as confessor; One of our company is sick, ..."
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