monastery
Pbow
Faw Qibli, Egypt · Africa: Coptic Egypt
26.112, 32.405
Attested. Attested by the Coptic and Greek Lives of Pachomius and by excavation.
Pbow
Faw Qibli
Pbow was the head monastery of Pachomius's federation of communal monasteries, and the superior of the whole federation lived here. Pachomius built a small church here and died in 346. Excavations found that church and a large 5th-century basilica.
Source stance: insider. Pachomian monastic literature plus archaeology.
People and groups named here
- Pachomius
- Petronius
- Horsiesios
- Theodore
Sources
- Pbow (Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia)
René-Georges Coquin, Maurice Martin and Peter Grossmann; The Coptic Encyclopedia (Macmillan 1991), Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Monasticism, Pachomian (Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia)
Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia; The Coptic Encyclopedia (Macmillan 1991), Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pbow ruins at Fāw Qiblī (photo record)
Nag Hammadi Archive, Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
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