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When the supervision of monasteries passed to another episcopal official—the Great [[Sakellarios]] ("[[sacristan]]")—the title of archimandrite became an honorary one for abbots of important monasteries (compared to an ordinary abbot, a [[hegumenos]]).
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The [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] and [[Byzantine Rite|Byzantine]] [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Catholic]] churches commonly select their [[bishop]]s from the ranks of the archimandrites.
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In 1764 the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] organized its monasteries and ranked them in one of three classes, awarding only the abbots at the head of monasteries of the second or first class the title of archimandrite. Abbots of third class monasteries were to be styled "hegumen".
In the Russian tradition an archimandrite wears a [[mitre]].
▲The duties of both a hegumen and an archimandrite are the same; however, during the [[Divine Service (Eastern Orthodoxy)|Divine Service]] a hegumen wears a simple [[Mantle (vesture)|mantle]], while the mantle of an archimandrite is decorated with sacral texts; an archimandrite also wears a [[mitre]] and bears a pastoral staff (''[[pateritsa]]'').
===Greek usage===
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