This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Pachomius's cenobitic rule proved more exportable than the solitary model it grew up beside, a documented distinction carried in how far each pattern traveled beyond Egypt rather than in the size either reached at home. Basil of Caesarea drew on the Pachomian rule directly when writing his own monastic regulations for the Greek East, a documented line of transmission from one founder's written rule to another region's organized monastic practice rather than a case of parallel invention.
Latin translations of Pachomian material carried the rule further still, into the Latin West where communal monasticism would go on to become the dominant shape of organized religious life across most of subsequent Christian history. That two separate translations, one into the thought and writing of a Greek bishop and one into Latin for western readers, both drew on the same original federation of monasteries at Tabennisi is documented as the mechanism by which one regional community's rule became the template most later Christian monasticism would follow.
That a rule written for one federation of monasteries in Upper Egypt reached a Greek bishop composing his own monastic regulations and, through Latin translation, readers across the western church besides, marks the reach of Pachomius's cenobitic model as a documented case where a single written rule outgrew the single community it was first written to govern.