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. 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 () is an Eastern Orthodox monastery that is part of the Meteora monastery complex in Thessaly, central Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern ...
in
Meteora
The Meteora (; , ) is a rock formation in the regional unit of Trikala, in Thessaly, in northwestern Greece, hosting one of the most prominent complexes of Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox monastery, monasteries, viewed locally as se ...
, Thessaly, Greece
Romania
* Varlaam, a village in
Gura Teghii Commune, Buzău County
* Varlaam, a village in
Adunații-Copăceni Commune, Giurgiu County
People
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Varlaam, Metropolitan of Moscow
Varlaam (; 1441–1533) was List of metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow, Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the Primate (bishop), primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1511 to 1521. He was the seventh metropolitan in Moscow to be app ...
, reigned 1511 to 1521
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Varlaam Moțoc, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1632-1653)
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Grigory Shyshatsky (1750-1820), a.k.a. Varlaam, Archbishop of Mogilev
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Varlaam of Chikoy (1774-1846)
* Varlaam, a character in Alexander Pushkin's drama ''
Boris Godunov
Boris Feodorovich Godunov (; ; ) was the ''de facto'' regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty. After the end of Feodor's reign, Russia descended into t ...
'' and its adaptations
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Archbishop Varlaam (disambiguation), several persons
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Varlaam of Khutyn, hermit
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Varlaam of Kyiv
See also
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Barlaam (disambiguation), the Western form
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Varlam, a shortened form
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