concept
Father Superior (otets namestnik)
Father Superior
also: отец наместник
The monk who administers a monastery's daily affairs as deputy to its archimandrite; described by Ieronim as struggling to compose even a sermon and needing the whole brotherhood's help to write the monastery's history, in unfavorable contrast to Nikolai's effortless akafisty.
Reading notes
- On Holy Night §72 the Father Superior
The otets namestnik (Father Superior, or deputy) is the monk who runs a monastery's day-to-day affairs on behalf of its archimandrite or bishop-abbot; this is the same monastery official Ieronim earlier described as struggling to write sermons and having driven the whole brotherhood to help him compile the monastery's history -- the story's second, unfavorable point of comparison to Nikolai's effortless gift.