Abbots

All Tibetan traditions call abbots "Ken Rinpoche." ❋ Unknown (2000)

The list of his successors, sometimes called abbots and sometimes bishops, is practically complete. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

St. Bernard is supported by the Annals when he asserts that so-called abbots were elected down to Malachy's time. ❋ Of Clairvaux Bernard (1899)

But it must be remembered, in fairness, that if they obeyed their supposed superiors, they had first chosen their superiors themselves; that as the becoming a monk at all was an assertion of self-will and independence, whether for good or evil, so their reverence for their abbots was a voluntary loyalty to one who they fancied had a right to rule them, because he was wiser and better than they; a feeling which some have found not degrading, but ennobling; and the parent, not of servility, but of true freedom. ❋ Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 (1878)

A team from Keele University is using geophysical equipment to survey the grounds of Hulton Abbey, in Abbey Hulton, to find the graves of more than 100 monks and high-status figures such as abbots, which could date as far back as the 13th century. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are, so to speak, no 'abbots' in this macro political European scene. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But St. Bernard leaves the impression that the religious community of Bangor ceased to exist on its destruction by the Norse pirates, and that subsequently the "abbots" merely held the lands that had belonged to it, and exercised no spiritual discipline. ❋ Of Clairvaux Bernard (1899)

For they were both appointed by election and were even called abbots, preserving in name but not in fact what had once been. [ ❋ Of Clairvaux Bernard (1899)

The sheriffs posted their outriders requested immediate contributions from abbots, priors, and landowners, and indulgences were freely offered by the Bishops to all who helped in making good the damage. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The baroque rebuilding of the abbey was carried out by Johann Dientzenhofer under abbots Christoph Ernst zu Guttenberg (of the family of the present German Secretary of Commerce of the same name) and Anselm Geisendorfer in the first half of the 18th century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Goudji is one of the favorite silversmiths of the French bishops or abbots who asked him to design many new vessels or reliquaries (Chartres altar, throne, lectern and vessels for instance). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not only has the number now grown to 50,000, six bishops are now to be found upon the list, as well as other abbots and religious superiors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since February 2, when the site opened, they were sponsored by a committee, which now has more than sixty people including six bishops, six Benedictine abbots, and several superiors general of religious societies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I extend my greetings to the abbots, the abbesses, and to the Benedictine communities present here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We also have now more images of the splendid Vespers, which the Holy Father celebrated in the abbery church of Montecassino with the assistance of Benedictine abbots and abbesses from all over the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In American Soto Zen, we have, maybe for the first time in any continuous ancient religious tradition, full inclusion for women, who can now be fully ordained priests, abbots and Zen masters side by side with men. ❋ Norman Fischer (2010)

In American Soto, women can be fully ordained priests, abbots and Zen masters and can take their places side by side with men, sharing status and leadership equally. ❋ Norman Fischer (2010)

Relying again on Mrs D'Arcy's wonderful Saints of Ireland, we learn that St Fintan "surpassed his teacher, Colman of Terryglass, and all the other abbots of his time in the austerity of his life and Rule." ❋ John (2009)