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.