Pachomius
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The first rules for a community of this type were drawn up by Pachomius who founded a coenobitic community at Tabenna in 320 A.D.
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
Pachomius had fourteen hundred monks in his own monastery and seven thousand under his rule.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
After some years, the two hermits went together to the desert of the Thebaid and began the work to which God had called Pachomius, for Palemon died soon after.
From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
It was there that organized monastic life began early in the fourth century under the influence of St. Anthony in northern and Pachomius in southern Egypt.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
The reputation of the monastery of Tabenna, under St. Pachomius, drew him to this place in disguise, some time before the year 349.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
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