**ARCHIETRATICON** (Ἀρχιεπρατικῶν). — In the Churches of the Byzantine rite, this is the liturgical book containing the religious functions proper to the bishop. It corresponds in general to the Roman Pontifical. The first edition in Greek was published in Venice (1714), edited by Metrophanes, metropolitan of Nissa; the latest was issued from the patriarchal press of Constantinople in 1820. Isaac Habert, canon of the metropolitan church of Paris, published an archieratikon in 1643 with the subtitle *Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Graecae*, printed in Paris. The Greek texts are accompanied by a Latin translation and commentaries.
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**ARCHIMANDRITE** (ἀρχιμανδρίτης, etymologically “head of the μάνδρα [‘fold’]”). — Title of the superior of a monastery in the Eastern Church from the 4th century. In the 6th century it was reserved for the prepositus of a federation of monasteries and became synonymous with “exarch” and “protos.” In more recent times a distinction is made between the actual archimandrite, superior of a monastery (usually an important one), and the titular archimandrite, a dignity granted *honoris causa* to monks and, rather abusively, to secular priests. The archimandrite of the Basilian monastery of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata is at the same time an exarch with his own territory (*Abbas nullius*). The Superior General of the Rotated Basilians bears the title of Protoarchimandrite.
Dante (*Paradiso*, XI, 99) calls St. Francis an archimandrite.