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Monastery head
Answer for the clue "Monastery head ", 7 letters:
hegumen
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context Christianity English) The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches. n. (context Christianity English) The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hegumen , hegumenos , or igumen (; Macedonian , Bulgarian and Russian : игумен, Arabic :القمص, trans . hegumenos ; Ukrainian : Ігумен ihumen ; , iğumeni ; ; Serbian : игуман or iguman ) is the title for the head of a monastery in the Eastern Orthodox and ...
Usage examples of hegumen.
They had superb signatures, all those old Russian hegumens and metropolitans, and sometimes so tasteful, so careful!