Varlaam

This page is about the personal name. For the archipelago in Karelia and its monastery, see Valaam.

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

• Varlaam, Greece, a village in the southern Ioannina regional unit in Epirus
• Monastery of Varlaam in Meteora, Thessaly, Greece

Romania

• Varlaam, a village in Gura Teghii Commune, Buzău County
• Varlaam, a village in Adunații-Copăceni Commune, Giurgiu County

People

• Varlaam, Metropolitan of Moscow, reigned 1511 to 1521
• Varlaam Moțoc, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1632-1653)
• Grigory Shyshatsky (1750-1820), a.k.a. Varlaam, Archbishop of Mogilev
• Varlaam of Chikoy (1774-1846)
• Varlaam, a character in Alexander Pushkin's drama Boris Godunov and its adaptations
• Archbishop Varlaam (disambiguation), several persons
• Varlaam of Khutyn, hermit
• Varlaam of Kyiv

See also

• Barlaam (disambiguation), the Western form
• Varlam, a shortened form