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[[Image:StPakhom.jpg|thumb|Coptic icon of St. Pachomius the Great, the Father of Cenobitic Monasticism]] [[File:Pachomius the Great.jpg|right|thumb|St. Pachomius the Great.]]Our venerable father '''Pachomius the Great''' (c. 292-346 A.D.) was an early Egyptian ascetic, both a [[Desert Fathers|Desert Father]] and a founder of [[cenobitic]] [[monasticism]] in Egypt. He is celebrated by the Church on [[May 15]] and is one of the few (non Biblical) saints to be venerated by Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism and some Protestant Churches.
==Life==
==See also==
* [[Theodosius the Great (Cenobiarch)]]*[[Prayer rope]]
==External links==
*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.aspsaints_view?contentid=55 &type=saints Pachomius the Great Martyr] ([[GOARCH]])
*[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.v.iv.viii.html Pachomius] and [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc3.iii.vii.xi.html Pachomius and the Cloister Life] from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
*[http://www.voskrese.info/spl/Xpachomy-gt.html St. Pachomius the Great of Upper Egypt, Abbot of Tabennisi] from the St. Pachomius Library
*[http://www.saintjonah.org/services/stpachomius.htm The Prayer Rule of St. Pachomius]
* Great [[Synaxarion|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3171/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Παχώμιος ὁ Μέγας].'' 15 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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