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- Abbot - n. - The superior or head of an abbey.
- Abbot - n. - One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.
- Abbotship - n. - The state or office of an abbot.
- Cistercian - n. - A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
- Prior - a. - The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
- Archimandrite - n. - A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.