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Monastery head
Answer for the clue "Monastery head ", 7 letters:
hegumen
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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 ...
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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.
Usage examples of hegumen.
They had superb signatures, all those old Russian hegumens and metropolitans, and sometimes so tasteful, so careful!