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An Abbess (Latin abbatissa, fem. form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior, or Mother Superior, of an abbey or convent of nuns. The mode of election, position, rights and authority of an abbess correspond generally with those of an abbot. The office is elective, the choice being by the secret votes of the sisters from their own body. The abbess is solemnly admitted to her office by episcopal benediction, together with the conferring of a staff and pectoral cross, and holds for life, though liable to be deprived ...

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• Abbey - Benedictine abbeys
• Abbey - Westminster Abbey
• Abbey - York
• Abbey - English Cluniac
• Abbey - Cistercian
• Abbey - Clairvaux Abbey
• Abbey - Citeaux Abbey
• Abbey - Kirkstall Abbey
• Abbey - Fountains Abbey
• Abbey - Austin Canons
• Abbey - Bristol Cathedral
• Abbey - Premonstratensians
• Abbey - Carthusian
• Abbey - Clermont
• Abbey - Mendicant Friars
• Abbey - Norwich, Gloucester
• Abbey - Hulne
• Abbey - Cells
• Abbey - Abbots and abbesses as rulers
• Abbey - Nunnery

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In its application to the Catholic Church, the term hierarchy originally referred to the "holy ordering" of the entire People of God. It is now almost exclusively used to refer to the holy ordering of the clergy of the church, those who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders. All churches that adopt a "catholic principle" of ecclesial order—Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, etc.—acknowledge a threefold hierarchical order which was divinely inspired and therefore a permanent structural feature of the church: Bishops ... Including:

• Catholic church hierarchy - Origin and use of the term Hierarchy
• Catholic church hierarchy - Ecclesiastical offices in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church
• Catholic church hierarchy - Patriarchs
• Catholic church hierarchy - Cardinals
• Catholic church hierarchy - Minor Patriarchs or Titular Patriarchs
• Catholic church hierarchy - Major Archbishops
• Catholic church hierarchy - Primates
• Catholic church hierarchy - Archbishops and Metropolitans
• Catholic church hierarchy - Titular Archbishops
• Catholic church hierarchy - Bishops and Eparchs
• Catholic church hierarchy - Titular Bishops
• Catholic church hierarchy - Superiors General of Religious Orders
• Catholic church hierarchy - Prelate Nullius
• Catholic church hierarchy - Archimandrite
• Catholic church hierarchy - Abbot or Abbess Nullius
• Catholic church hierarchy - Abbot or Abbess
• Catholic church hierarchy - Exarch
• Catholic church hierarchy - Vicar Apostolic
• Catholic church hierarchy - Prefect Apostolic
• Catholic church hierarchy - Diocesean Administrator
• Catholic church hierarchy - Prefect of a Personal Prelature
• Catholic church hierarchy - Vicars General
• Catholic church hierarchy - Vicars Episcopal
• Catholic church hierarchy - Vicars Canonical
• Catholic church hierarchy - Protonotary Apostolic
• Catholic church hierarchy - Provincial Superior
• Catholic church hierarchy - Vicars Forane Deans
• Catholic church hierarchy - Prelates of Honor of His Holiness
• Catholic church hierarchy - Canons
• Catholic church hierarchy - Chaplains of His Holiness
• Catholic church hierarchy - Archpriests
• Catholic church hierarchy - Archdeacons
• Catholic church hierarchy - Pastors
• Catholic church hierarchy - Local Superior
• Catholic church hierarchy - Hieromonks
• Catholic church hierarchy - Parochial Vicars
• Catholic church hierarchy - Deacons
• Catholic church hierarchy - Subdeacons
• Catholic church hierarchy - Diocesean Scholastics
• Catholic church hierarchy - Catechists
• Catholic church hierarchy - Installed Acolyte
• Catholic church hierarchy - Installed Lector
• Catholic church hierarchy - Links

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Adelaide, Abbess of Villich (Adelheid of Willich) (c. 970 – February 5 O.S., 1015) was a daughter of Megingoz des Brunharingen, Count of Guelders [1], and Gerberga of Metzgau, a granddaughter of Charles the Simple, king of the West Franks. When still very young she entered the convent of St Ursula, Our Lady of the Capitol, founded by her parents in Cologne, where the Rule of St Jerome was followed. About 980, her parents founded the convent of Villich, supported by a manor at the confluence of the Rhine and the Sieg, opposite ...

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An abbey-principality is an area that is ruled by the head of an abbey. The ruler of an abbey-principality is a prince-abbot or a princess-abbess. In an abbey-principality, the head of the city's abbey is automatically the ruler. The designated abbey may be a monastery or a convent. Thus, because of the possibility of it being a convent, an abbey-principality is one of the only cases in which the rule can be restricted to female incumbents. There was a fairly even number of prince-abbots and princess-abesses.

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Whitby Abbey is a ruined monastery sited on Whitby's East Cliff. It was founded in 657 AD by the Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streanshalh (Streonshalh). He appointed Lady Hilda, niece of Edwin, the first christian king of Northumbria, as Abbess. The double monastery of Benedictine monks and nuns was also home home to the great Saxon poet Caedmon. In 664, the abbey was the site of the Synod of Whitby, at which the ...

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The Cappadocians are significant figures in the history of Hellenistic Christian philosophies. They were a 4th-century monastic family, led by St Makrina to provide a central place for her brothers to study and meditate, and also to provide a peaceful shelter for their mother. Abbess Makrina fostered the formation and development of three men who collectively became designated the Cappadocian Fathers, Basil the Great who was the older of Makrina's brothers and eventually became a bishop, Gregory Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa who was

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Port-Royal was a Cistercian convent in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. It was established in 1204, but became famous as an educational institution when its discipline was reformed in 1602 by its abbess Jacqueline Arnauld. The Arnauld family became its patrons and the convent's subsequent history was directed by a number of the holders of that name. In 1625 most of the nuns moved to a new Port-Royal in Paris, which subsequently became Port-Royal de Paris while the older one was known as Port-R ...

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The Bridgettine or Briggittine order. A monastic religious order of Augustinian canonesses founded by Saint Birgitta (Saint Bridget) of Sweden approximately 1350, and approved by Pope Urban V in 1370. The Bridgettine order was open to both men and women, and was dedicated to devotion to the passion of Jesus. It was a ”double order” each convent having attached to it a small community of canons to act as chaplains, but under the government of the abbess. The order spread widely in Sweden and Norway, and played a remar ...

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Bath Abbey is the last in a series of monastic churches built in Bath and is still in active use. In 675 Osric, King of the Hwicce, granted the Abbess Berta 100 hides near Bath for the establishment of a convent. The religious house later changed into a monastery, under the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester. But the powerful King Offa of Mercia successfully wrested 'that most famous monastery at Bath' from the bishop in 781. William of Malmesbury tells us that Offa rebuilt the monastic church, which was dedicated to St. Peter. It was fine enough to impress monarchs. In 957 Bath monastery wa ...

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Saint Brigid of Ireland (Bridget, Bridgit, Brigit, Bride) (451- 525) was born at Faughart near Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. According to her hagiography, her parents were Dubhthach, pagan king of Leinster, and Brocca, a Christian Pictish slave who had been baptized by Saint Patrick. Brigid bore the name of one of the most powerful goddesses of the pagan religion that Dubhthach practiced. Brigid was the goddess of fire, whose manifestations were song and poetry, which the Irish considered the flame of knowledge. Brigid suppos ...

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In general, a nun is a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Roman Catholics, Eastern Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, and Buddhists, for example. The male equivalent of a nun is a monk. Nun - Catholic. In Roman Catholicism a nun is the term for a female monastic regular, equivalent to that of a male monk. In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are a number of differe ... Including:

• Nun - Catholic
• Nun - Eastern Orthodox Christian
• Nun - Other Christian
• Nun - Buddhist

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