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ACŒMETI, ɑ̄-sem´e-tɑi or ɑ̄´´cei-mê´tî,-tê (“Sleepless”): An order of monks who sang the divine praises in their monasteries night and day without cessation, dividing themselves into three choirs for the purpose and undertaking the service in rotation. A certain Alexander (ASB, Jan., i. 1018-28) founded their first monastery on the Euphrates about the year 400, and a second at Constantinople. The abbot Marcellus spread the custom in the East. Monks from his monastery were transferred in 459 by the consular Studius to the monastery newly founded by him in Constantinople and called, after his name, the Studium, which later became famous. The members of the order are sometimes called Studites. In the controversy with the Theopaschites they opposed the views of the papal legate, and in 534 they were disavowed and excommunicated by Pope John II.

G. Krüger.

« Achterfeldt Johann Heinrich Acœmeti Acolyte »

