abbot
Derivation
- Aramaic: abba, father
Article
Title definitely fixed by Saint Benedict and given to the superior of a monastery of monks having the nature of a private family and settle location, as the several branches of the Order of Saint Benedict, including the Black Monks of Saint Benedict, the Cistercians of the Three Observances, the Camaldolese, Vallumbrosans, Silvestrians, Olivetans, some houses of Canons Regular, of the Antonians, of the Armenian Benedictines, and of the Basilians, and the Premonstratensians. The office is elective and for life, the choice being made by secret ballot of the professed members of the community. The authority of an abbot is twofold: one, paternal, by which he administers the property of the abbey and maintains discipline and the observance of the rule and constitutions of the order; the other, quasi-episcopal.
In Christian Art
Additional Information
- abbot general
- abbot president
- abbot primate
- abbot, lay
- abbot, regular
- abbot, secular
- abbot, titular
- archabbot
- Catholic Encyclopedia
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- Blessed Klymentii Sheptytskyi
- Blessed Konrad II of Mondsee
- Blessed Konrad Liechtenau
- Blessed Ladislas of Gielniów
- Blessed Leo II of Cava
- Blessed Leo of Saint-Bertin
- Blessed Leonard of Cava
- Blessed Luc of Roucy
- Blessed Luke of Messina
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- Blessed Marino of Cava
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- Blessed Nicholaus of Vaucelles
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- Blessed Odino of Rot
- Blessed Odo of Beauvais
- Blessed Ogerius
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