Archimandrite

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

(2):

(n.) A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(ἄρχων τῆς μάνδρας ), the name given in the Greek Church to the head of a monastery, and is equivalent to "abbot." It has also been applied to all ecclesiastical superiors, and even in the Latin Church there have been examples of archbishops being styled archimandrites.