帕科缪（St. Pachomius the Great），团体修道生活创始人。原为士兵，约在312年改信基督宗教。其后，决心以潜修方式落实信仰生活，尔后发现此种生活太不规律，于315-320年间，在埃及中部的底比斯(Tabennisi)创建基督教第一所修道院，并撰写团修式修道生活的规则。使有心潜修基督信仰的人在宣誓下一起生活分享，崇拜、工作、饮食、主餐、沉思经文。修道士紧密的组合而成一个团体，产生一种理想的基督教社会观念与世俗世界、及因妥协而腐化的教会观念相对照。除了创建男修道院外，帕科缪也鼓励女性创建类似机构──设立女修道院。终其一生，帕科缪共创建十所修道院。

Saint Pachomius (Greek:Παχώμιος, Coptic: ⲡⲁϩⲱⲙ ca. 292–348), also known as Pachome and Pakhomius (/pəˈkoʊmiəs/), is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism. Coptic churches celebrate his feast day on 9 May, and Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches mark his feast on 15 May or 28 May. In the Lutheran Church, the saint is remembered as a renewer of the church, along with his contemporary (and fellow desert saint), Anthony of Egypt on January 17.