from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980 Abbot. Superior of a monastery of monks having a settled location; a title definitely fixed by St. Benedict. The abbot is elected, usually for life, by the professed members of the community in a secret ballot. The authority of an abbot is, first, paternal, administering the property of the abbey and maintaining discipline in the observance of rule, and, second, is quasi-episcopal in conferring a certain territorial jurisdiction. The rule of the order determines the qualifications of its abbot. His insignia are the pectoral cross and a ring.
He is the head of a monastery or convent. A female abbot is an abbess, she is the head and leader of a convent or monastery for nuns.
An Abbot is the leader of a monastery in the Roman Catholic Church; usually in the Benedictine order but also in the Cisterian order, and Carthusian.
An abbot is the superior or head of an abbey or monastery, or a layman who received the abbey's revenues following the closing of monasteries.
An archabbot is a general superior in certain Catholic congregations.
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Abbot Apodemus.
Abbot Glisam was the first abbot dormouse of Redwall.
The word abbot does not have an opposite. The word abbess, if that is what you have in mind, is not an antonym of abbot.
The address of the Abbot Historical Society is: Po Box 105, Abbot, ME 04406-0105
The Abbot was created in 1820.
An abbot-bishop is a person who holds both posts of abbot and bishop simultaneously.
abbot is the superior of monastery
A female abbot is an abbess.
the abbot
Charles Abbot Colchester has written: 'The diary and correspondence of Charles Abbot'
the abbot is in charge of the monks and nuns
An abbot general is the leader of a monastic order.