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
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- Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
- Saint Armagillus of Brittany
- Saint Attalas of Bobbio
- Saint Benedict Biscop
- Saint Benedict of Aniane
- Saint Botulph of Ikanhoe
- Saint Cedd
- Saint Columbanus
- Saint Comgall of Bangor
- Saint Dominic of Silos
- Saint Emilian Cucullatus
- Saint Ermin of Lobbes
- Saint Fursey of Péronne
- Saint Gall
- Saint Gregory of Utrecht
- Saint Jean of Réomay
- Saint John Climacus
- Saint Leonard of Noblac
- Saint Madron of Cornwall
- Saint Maurus
- Saint Odilo of Cluny
- Saint Othmar of Saint Gall
- Saint Richard the King
- Saint Robert of Newminster
- Saint Theodosius the Cenobiarch
- Saint Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
- Saint William of Vercelli
- Saint Winnoc of Wormhoult
Additional Information
- abbot general
- abbot president
- abbot primate
- abbot, lay
- abbot, regular
- abbot, secular
- abbot, titular
- archabbot
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Catholic Pocket Dictionary
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- Blessed Alan de Solminihac
- Blessed Albert of Bologna
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- Blessed Albert of Sassovivo
- Blessed Albert of Steinfeld
- Blessed Alexander of Cîteaux
- Blessed Alexius Worstius
- Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
- Blessed Almus of Balmerino
- Blessed Amadeus of Lausanne
- Blessed Andreas Ebersbach
- Blessed Angelus Sinesius
- Blessed Anselm of Anchin
- Blessed Anselm of Rot an der Rot
- Blessed Archinrico of Montmajour
- Blessed Arnold of Gemblours
- Blessed Arnold of Hildesheim
- Blessed Arnold of Padua
- Blessed Arnold Wala
- Blessed Arnulf of Leuven
- Blessed Arnulf of Saint-Père-en-Vallée
- Blessed Balduino of Rieti
- Blessed Balsamus of Cava
- Blessed Bartolomeo of Simeri
- Blessed Beaudoin of Beaumont
- Blessed Benedict Cerretani
- Blessed Benedict of Cassino
- Blessed Benigno of Vallumbrosa
- Blessed Benincasa of Cava
- Blessed Berchtold of Engelberg
- Blessed Berengar de Alenys
- Blessed Bernard of Fountains
- Blessed Bernard of Rodez
- Blessed Bernard of Vienne
- Blessed Bernhard of Rodez
- Blessed Bertarius of Vallombrosa
- Blessed Berthold of Garsten
- Blessed Bertrand of Grand-Selve
- Blessed Bruno of Rommersdorf
- Blessed Burchard of Mallersdorf
- Blessed Cadwgan of Bangor
- Blessed Catwallon
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