Tabenna
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Christian community founded in Upper Egypt around 320 by Saint Pachomius.
Location: 26.0997, 32.3802 · Pleiades 786125
Who is recorded here
- Theodoros of Tabenna death · AD 368
About the place
Tabenna is a Christian community founded in Upper Egypt around 320 by Saint Pachomius. It was the motherhouse of a federation of monasteries known as the Koinonia. At the time of Pachomius's death in 346, there were nine establishments for men and two for women, along with two or three thousand "Tabennesites".
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