A hieromonk (Greek: Ἱερομόναχος, romanized: Ieromonachos; Georgian: მღვდელმონაზონი, romanized: mghvdelmonazoni; Slavonic: Иеромонахъ, Romanian: Ieromonah, Albanian: Hieromurg), also called a priestmonk, [citation needed] is a person who is both monk and priest in the Eastern Christian tradition.

Monks who have been ordained to the priesthood are called hieromonks (priest-monks); monks who have been ordained to the diaconate are called hierodeacons (deacon-monks). A Schemamonk who is a priest is called a Hieroschemamonk.

The meaning of HIEROMONK is a monk of the Eastern Church who is also a priest.

May 22, 2023 · Monks who have been ordained to the priesthood are called hieromonks (priest-monks); monks who have been ordained to the diaconate are called hierodeacons (deacon-monks). A Schemamonk who is a priest is called a Hieroschemamonk.

These are titles of honor given to non-monastic Priests, and are generally equivalent to that of Archimandrite. Hieromonk.

1775–85; partial translation of Late Greek or Medieval Greek hierómonachos. See hiero-, monk. Father Hieromonk Ioan, a member of the Kyiv monastery, said that the clergy there were not …

Sep 27, 2024 · hieromonk (plural hieromonks) A monk of the Eastern Church who is also a priest.

Dec 29, 2020 · The Patriarchate of Constantinople’s senior-most priest and only hieromonk serving in the Philippines has come under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church.

HIEROMONK A monk in the Eastern Christian Churches, including those in union with Rome, who is ordained to the priesthood.

Saint Alexi (Shushania) was born September 23, 1852, in the village of Noqalaqevi, in the Senaki district of Samegrelo, to a pious Christian couple. His father died in 1868, after giving the sixteen-year-old future hieromonk his blessing to care for the family. In the same year that his father…