Monk

This page lists 1,742 biographies of monks, covering lives from 568 BC to 2000. Featuring Josep Massot i Muntaner, Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan and Sawa. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Pang Khat

Elder Isidore

1814 – 1908

Or

AD 4 – 390

Mo Lua of Killaloe

Jikten Gonpo Rinchen Pel

1143 – 1217

Paisius Velichkovsky

1722 – 1794

Émeric Crucé

1590 – 1648

Stephen Birchington

1350 – 1407

Gottfried Lumper

1747 – 1800

Bhumman Shah

1687 – 1762

Abraham of Nethpra

Nilus of Sora

1433 – 1508

Ababius

John Douglas Main

1926 – 1982

Pál Széchenyi

1645 – 1710

William of Jumièges

b. 1000

Silvanus

Daniel

Saint Iakovos Tsalikis

1920 – 1991

William Meninger

1932 – 2021

Akylina of Drama

1921 – 2006

Ymar

Malchus of Syria

Étienne de Rouen

1150 – 1169

Nikon of Radonezh

1352 – 1426

Benedict Biscop

628 – 690

Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans

1703 – 1752

Méen

540 – 617

Lupicinus of Condat

400 – 480

Vasipake Sayadaw

Aimoin of Fleury

960 – 1010

Saint Bavo

589 – 654

Abbán

570 – 620

Saint Fursey

567 – 650

John of Thebes

Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera

Anselm of Gembloux

Pauk Ko Taw

Hesychius of Jerusalem

350 – 433

Ælfric Bata

1000 – 1010

Anna Maria Marchocka

1603 – 1652

Satyavijay

1600 – 1700

Swami Shankarananda

1880 – 1962

Suddhananda Mahathero

1933 – 2020

Thomas V. Moore

1877 – 1969

Johannes Cuno

1463 – 1513

Malkhaz Gurieli

1700 – 1703

Euprepius of Egypt

Elias the Hermit

Reginald of Canterbury

1100 – 1200

Hakuun Yasutani

1885 – 1973

Nimattullah Kassab

1808 – 1858

Giovanni Gersen

b. 1243

Oslyabya

Sisoes the Great

350 – 429

Macarius of Alexandria

297 – 393

Bercthun

601 – 736

Saint Tanguy

550 – 594

Anna Makkavaiou of Asia Minor

1893 – 1981

Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Thero

b. 1942

Benedict of Bari

1150 – 1250

Geoffrey de Gorham

1100 – 1146

Saint Nikon the Metanoeite

930 – 998

Claude AnShin Thomas

b. 1947

William I of Berg

1242 – 1308

Vincent Madelgarius

607 – 677

Nilus the Younger

910 – 1004

Plato of Sakkoudion

740 – 814

Louise of Stolberg-Wernigerode

1771 – 1856

Swami Lokeshwarananda

1909 – 1998

Abdel Messih El-Makari

1892 – 1963

Baruc

Peter Bartholomew

1075 – 1099

Valerius Pinianus

381 – 420

John of Tella

483 – 538

Alcuin Deutsch

1877 – 1951

Abba Alef

Nicholas of Worcester

Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thero

b. 1944

Robert of Shrewsbury

John Uroš

1350 – 1422

Theodor of Egypt

Agehananda Bharati

1923 – 1991

Ramchandrasuri

1897 – 1992

Robert de Turlande

1000 – 1067

David Steindl-Rast

b. 1926

Euphrosynus of Pskov

1386 – 1481

Gerasim Vologodskiĭ

Abba Yamata

Zonkaku

1290 – 1373

Cyril of Scythopolis

514 – 557

Alto of Altomünster

701 – 760

Theodosius of Kyiv

1029 – 1074

Theodore of Sykeon

501 – 613

Kalyansagarsuri

Anthimus of Jerusalem

1717 – 1808

Swami Achalananda

1876 – 1947

Saint Lot

Saint Leontius of monemvasia

1377 – 1452

Saint Gobain

601 – 670