CALOGERI, in church history, monks of the
Greek church, divided into three degrees: the novices,
called archari; the ordinary professed, called microche-
mi; and the more perfect, called mezaiochemi: they are
likewise divided into cenobites, anchorites, and recluses.
The cenobites are employed in reciting their offices
from midnight to sunset, they are obliged to make
three genuflexions at the door of the choir, and, return-
ing, to bow to the right and to the left, to their bre-
thren.
thren. The anchorites retire from the conversation of the world, and live in hermitages in the neighbourhood of the monasteries; they cultivate a little spot of ground, and never go out but on Sundays and holidays to perform their devotions at the next monastery. As for the recluses, they shut themselves up in grottos and caverns on the tops of mountains, which they never go out of, abandoning themselves entirely to Providence: they live on the alms sent them by the neighbouring monasteries.