Pachomius

Definition: Pachomius was born in Egypt around 292 and died in about 348. He became an ascetic in the desert and then created the communal arrangement of monasteries known as cenobitism by putting together under one roof the individual monks who had been living in their own cells. Pachomius wrote rules for living in the communal monastic arrangement that have been combined with other monastic rules, but the rules that may have been written by Pachomius specifically have not been authenticated.