Varlaam is a variant of the saint's name
Barlaam, used in the Orthodox churches due to the
Byzantine sound shift from /b/ to /v/. A shortened form is
Varlam Varlam is both a masculine given name and a surname derived from the saint's name Barlaam, used predominantly in Orthodox cultures. Notable people with the name include:
*Varlam Cherkezishvili (1846–1925), Georgian politician and journalist
*Var ...
. It may refer to:
Places
Greece
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Varlaam, Greece, a village in the southern
Ioannina regional unit in Epirus
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Monastery of Varlaam
The Monastery of St. Varlaam ( el, Μονή Αγίου Νικολάου Αναπαυσά) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery that is part of the Meteora monastery complex in Thessaly, central Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially ...
in
Meteora, Thessaly, Greece
Romania
* Varlaam, a village in
Gura Teghii Commune, Buzău County
* Varlaam, a village in
Adunații-Copăceni
Adunații-Copăceni is a commune located in Giurgiu County, Muntenia, Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. ...
Commune, Giurgiu County
People
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Varlaam, Metropolitan of Moscow
Varlaam (russian: Варлаам) was Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' from 1511 to 1521. He was the seventh Metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.
From ...
, reigned 1511 to 1521
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Varlaam Moțoc, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1632-1653)
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Grigory Shyshatsky Monk Barlaam (russian: Монах Варлаам; secular name Gregory Stepanovich Shyshatsky, 12 March 1750, village Krasilovka, Kozeletskyy uezd, Chernigov province - 23 July 1820, Novgorod-Seversky) was a defrocked Archbishop of Mogilev and Vit ...
(1750-1820), a.k.a. Varlaam, Archbishop of Mogilev
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Varlaam of Chikoy
Barlaam of Chikoy (russian: Варлаам Чикойский - Varlaam Chikoysky, secular name Vasily Fedotovich Nadezhin, Василий Федотович Надежин; born 1774, village Meresevo, Lukyanovsky uezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorat ...
(1774-1846)
* Varlaam, a character in Alexander Pushkin's drama ''
Boris Godunov
Borís Fyodorovich Godunóv (; russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 1552 ) ruled the Tsardom of Russia as ''de facto'' regent from c. 1585 to 1598 and then as the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605. After the end of his ...
'' and its adaptations
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Victor Sylvestrovych Solowij (1891-1966), a.k.a. Archbishop Varlaam
See also
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Barlaam (disambiguation)
Barlaam may refer to:
* Barlaam, legendary Christian saint, teacher of prince Josaphat in India in the Barlaam and Josaphat tale
*Barlaam of Antioch (died 304), Christian martyr
*Barlaam of Kiev (11th century), saint in the Russian Orthodox Church ...
, the Western form
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Varlam Varlam is both a masculine given name and a surname derived from the saint's name Barlaam, used predominantly in Orthodox cultures. Notable people with the name include:
*Varlam Cherkezishvili (1846–1925), Georgian politician and journalist
*Var ...
, a shortened form
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