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the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community... the abbot and his monks were commanded to attend the nearest church... where the office of abbot was commonly filled by laymen till the end of the 7th century... expressly subordinates the abbot to episcopal oversight... case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus... abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury... granted it to the abbot of St Alban... Next after the abbot of St Alban... the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the... It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age... In some exceptional cases an abbot was allowed to name his own successor... Cassian speaks of an abbot in Egypt doing this... unless the abbot was canonically deprived by the chiefs of his order... abbot in medieval times is thus prescribed by the... The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church... The power of the abbot was paternal but absolute... the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house... decreed that the abbot should dine in the... When the abbot condescended to dine in the refectory... Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold crozier with a veil attached and a black galero with... the galero of a territorial abbot would be green... Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold crozier with a veil attached and a black galero with... the galero of a territorial abbot would be green... Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold... The ordinary attire of the abbot was according to rule to be the same as that of the monks... In process of time the title abbot was extended to... The lay abbot took his recognized rank in the feudal hierarchy... the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal famines... The abbot is a priest... the blessing of an abbot is celebrated by the bishop in whose diocese the monastery is or... with the new abbot being presented with the mitre... Though the ceremony installs the new abbot into a position of legal authority... the abbot not only becomes father of his monks in a spiritual sense... The abbot wears the same habit as his fellow monks... The abbot of San Anselmo di Aventino... and is acknowledged the senior abbot for the Order of St... An abbot president is the head of a congregation... abbot is the head of some monasteries which are the motherhouses of other monasteries... the Abbot is referred to as the... the ranks of Abbot and Archimandrite have been given as honorary titles in the Russian Church... which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth... the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place... a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a... The Pilgrimage of the Russian Abbot Daniel in the Holy Land...

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