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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the early church and in the Greek Church, a monk who is a priest; a hieromonach.

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Examples

  • The Venerable Bede, priest-monk of Jarrow, recorded the story of Alban the Martyr in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • This reminds me an awful lot of someone from my particular neck of the woods, a devout pious priest-monk, who was one of Thos.

    What were you thinkin'? Terry Nelson 2007

  • The Venerable Bede, priest-monk of Jarrow, recorded the story of Alban the Martyr in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

    St Alban, Protomartyr of Britain Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • The Venerable Bede, priest-monk of Jarrow, recorded the story of Alban the Martyr in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

    Saint Alban, Protomartyr of Britain Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • The Venerable Bede, priest-monk of Jarrow, recorded the story of Alban the Martyr in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • You have got to read this from Don Marco, my priest-monk friend from the Abbey of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome.

    Secularism and the denial of the Truth Terry Nelson 2006

  • You have got to read this from Don Marco, my priest-monk friend from the Abbey of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome.

    Archive 2006-07-23 Terry Nelson 2006

  • But even now in the East the priest-monk (leromonachos) is

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Their spiritual needs were provided for by a priest, generally a priest-monk, who was their "ghostly father"

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • In a slender book on the subject of nihilism, the priest-monk Fr. Seraphim Rose showed how radically materialist ideologies such as communism and fascism will always fail as long as a single believer remains.

    Clerical Whispers 2009

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