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monk (related)
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minister (related)
A diplomatic officer sent to a foreign nation to represent his or her government, usually ranking below an ambassador
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friar (related)
A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
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waltheof (related)
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prior
A monastic officer in charge of a priory or ranking next below the abbot of an abbey.
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hieromonach
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rector
Sometimes, a pastor or other head priest
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archabbot
In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
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abbot-general
The leader of a monastic order.
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archimandrite
(Eastern Orthodox Ch.) The head of a monastery or of a number of monasteries
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beadsman
A person in a poorhouse
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caloyer
A monk of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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religieux
A man bound by monastic vows; a monk.
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sub-prior (related)
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bishop (related)
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commendator (related)
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prioress (related)
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abbess (related)
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archdeacon (related)
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abbacy (related)
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cellarer (related)
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prebendary (related)
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bishopric (related)
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newminster (related)
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inchaffray (related)
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prebend (related)
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Abbot Sentence Examples

  • It was a different Howie Abbot who took the news.

  • After having spent forty years in a cave at the foot of mount Sinai, he became abbot of the monastery.

  • The abbot of Fecamp seems to have originally held a market.

  • The manor belonged at an early date to the abbot of Westminster.

  • This stands on the site where, in 1618, the Protestants attempted to build a church, the forcible prevention of which by Abbot Wolfgang Solander was the immediate cause of the protest of the Bohemian estates and the "defenestration" of the ministers Martinic and Slavata, which opened the Thirty Years' War.

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