Monastic Family Tree

Similar to “Useful Charts” 

 Bubbles for each monastic - birth and death day, other names 

 Lines indicate “disciple of” 

 Vertically, it’s a timeline. Horizontally it’s based on geography (e.g. Scete, Red Sea, Sa3eed, Tammoh, North along Mediterranean). 

 Focus on Egyptian monastics 

 Early 

 Paul of Thebes 

 Anthony the Great 

 Nitria 

 Abba Pamo (Pambo) - 303 AD - 373 AD: First to join Amoun in Nitria (Amoun is the disciple of St Antony) 

 Abba Hor, Pior, Or 

 Serapion of Nitria 

 Cronius 

 Bessarion 

 Chaeremon 

 Tall Brothers 

 Isaac of the Cells 

 John of Egypt 

 Macarius of Alexandria 

 Macarius of Egypt 

 Albianos 

 Pambo 

 Pishoy 

 Sisoes the Great 

 Ammonas of Egypt 

 Kellia 

 

 Scetis 

 Abba Macarius 

 Maximus and Dometius - first under Abba Agabus in Syria, and then under Macarius the Great 

 St Moses the Strong 

 Abba Isidore 

 Abba John  

 Abba Arsenius 

 John Cassian 

 John the Short 

 Macarius of Alexandria 

 Pishoy 

 Abba Poemen 

 Samuel the Confessor 

 Paphnutius - disciple of Abba Isidore and Abba Macarius 

 Visitors 

 Jerome 

 Palladius of Galatia 

 Need Categorizing 

 Abba Hedra - disciple of Abba Poemen