Oct 182008
Derivation
- Aramaic: abba, father
Article
Title definitely fixed by Saint Benedict and given to the superior of a monastery of monks having the nature of a private family and settle location, as the several branches of the Order of Saint Benedict, including the Black Monks of Saint Benedict, the Cistercians of the Three Observances, the Camaldolese, Vallumbrosans, Silvestrians, Olivetans, some houses of Canons Regular, of the Antonians, of the Armenian Benedictines, and of the Basilians, and the Premonstratensians. The office is elective and for life, the choice being made by secret ballot of the professed members of the community. The authority of an abbot is twofold: one, paternal, by which he administers the property of the abbey and maintains discipline and the observance of the rule and constitutions of the order; the other, quasi-episcopal.
In Christian Art
- Blessed Idesbald of Dunes
- Saint Adelard of Corbie
- Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
- Saint Armagillus of Brittany
- Saint Attalas of Bobbio
- Saint Benedict Biscop
- Saint Benedict of Aniane
- Saint Botulph of Ikanhoe
- Saint Cedd
- Saint Columbanus
- Saint Comgall of Bangor
- Saint Dominic of Silos
- Saint Ermin of Lobbes
- Saint Fursey of Péronne
- Saint Gall
- Saint Gregory of Utrecht
- Saint Jean of Réomay
- Saint Leonard of Noblac
- Saint Madron of Cornwall
- Saint Maurus
- Saint Odilo of Cluny
- Saint Othmar of Saint Gall
- Saint Theodosius the Cenobiarch
- Saint Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
- Saint William of Vercelli
Additional Information
- abbot general
- abbot president
- abbot primate
- abbot, lay
- abbot, regular
- abbot, secular
- abbot, titular
- archabbot
Abbots Profiled on this Site
- Blessed Aaron of Cracow
- Blessed Abraham of Strelna
- Blessed Adalbert of Tegernsee
- Blessed Alan de Solminihac
- Blessed Albert of Bologna
- Blessed Albert of Pontida
- Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
- Blessed Amadeus of Lausanne
- Blessed Arnold of Gemblours
- Blessed Arnold of Padua
- Blessed Balsamus of Cava
- Blessed Benincasa of Cava
- Blessed Berengar de Alenys
- Blessed Bernard of Vienne
- Blessed Catwallon
- Blessed Charles of Sayn
- Blessed Christian O'Conarchy
- Blessed Christopher of Milan
- Blessed Columba Marmion
- Blessed Conon of Naso
- Blessed Conrad of Urach
- Blessed Constabilis of Cava
- Blessed Convoyon of Redon
- Blessed Daniel of Cambron
- Blessed Dominic Spadafora
- Blessed Ekbert of Muensterschwarzach
- Blessed Falco of Cava
- Blessed Frederick of Hallum
- Blessed Frowin of Engelberg
- Blessed Fulk of Toulouse
- Blessed Gaufridus
- Blessed Gausmarus of Savigny
- Blessed Gebrand of Klaarkamp
- Blessed Gerald of Fossanuova
- Blessed Gerard of Bourgogne
- Blessed Gerard of Orchimont
- Blessed Gervinus of Aldenberg
- Blessed Gilbert of Neufontaines
- Blessed Gilbert of Valenciennes
- Blessed Gilbert the Theologian
- Blessed Gundisalvus of Azebeyro
- Blessed Gunther
- Blessed Guy of Casauria
- Blessed Guy of Vicogne
- Blessed Hugh of Bonnevaux
- Blessed James of Certaldo
- Blessed Joachim of Fiore
- Blessed John Beche
- Blessed John Eustace
- Blessed John Morosini
- Blessed John of Grace-Dieu
- Blessed John of Valence
- Blessed John Sordi
- Blessed Klymentii Sheptytskyi
- Blessed Konrad II of Mondsee
- Blessed Ladislas of Gielniów
- Blessed Leonard of Cava
- Blessed Luke of Messina
- Blessed Macarius the Scot
- Blessed Marianus Scotus
- Blessed Peter Igneus
- Blessed Peter II of La Cava
- Blessed Peter of Montepiano
- Blessed Peter the Venerable
- Blessed Pope Eugene III
- Blessed Ralph de la Futaye
- Blessed Reinhard of Reinhausen
- Blessed Robert Gruthuysen
- Blessed Robert of Arbrissel
- Blessed Roger of Ellant
- Blessed Stephen of Liège
- Blessed Thiemo of Salzburg
- Blessed Utto of Metten
- Blessed Ventura of Spello
- Blessed Walter of Quesnoy
- Blessed William of Maleval
- Blessed Wirnto of Formbach
- Pope Blessed Victor III
- Saint Aaron of Brettany
- Saint Abban of Kill-Abban
- Saint Abbo of Fleury
- Saint Abel of Rheims
- Saint Abraham of Cyriacus
- Saint Abraham of Kratia
- Saint Abraham of Rostov
- Saint Abraham of Smolensk
- Saint Acca
- Saint Adalbero of Augsburg
- Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg
- Saint Adalgott of Chur
- Saint Adalgott of Einsiedeln
- Saint Adam of San Sabine
- Saint Adamnan of Iona
- Saint Adelard of Corbie
- Saint Adelelmus
- Saint Adelphus of Remiremont
- Saint Adrian of Canterbury
- Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
- Saint Aganus of Airola
- Saint Agericus of Tours
- Saint Agigulf
- Saint Agilo of Sithin
- Saint Agilus
- Saint Agnellus of Naples
- Saint Agofridus of Lacroix
- Saint Aichardus
- Saint Aid of Achard-Finglas
- Saint Aignan of Orléans
- Saint Aigulf
- Saint Aigulphus of Lérins
- Saint Alanus of Lavaur
- Saint Alberic of Citeaux
- Saint Alberic of Stavelot
- Saint Albert of Butrio
- Saint Albert of Como
- Saint Albert of Gambron
- Saint Albinus of Angers
- Saint Aldhelm of Sherborne
- Saint Aldo of Hasnon
- Saint Aldwine of Peartney
- Saint Alferius of La Cava
- Saint Alfric of Canterbury
- Saint Aliprandus of Pavia
- Saint Alphege of Winchester
- Saint Amand of Coly
- Saint Amand of Moissac
- Saint Amand of Nantes
- Saint Amandus of Boixe
- Saint Amandus of Lérins
- Saint Amarand
- Saint Amaswinthus of Málaga
- Saint Amatus
- Saint Amatus of Sion
- Saint Ambrose Autpertus
- Saint Ambrose of Agaune
- Saint Ambrose of Agaune
- Saint Anastasius of Sinai
- Saint Anastasius of Suppentonia
- Saint Anastasius XVI
- Saint Andrew of Elnone
- Saint Andrew of Strumi
- Saint Angelelmus of Auxerre
- Saint Angilbert of Centula
- Saint Anglinus of Stavelot
- Saint Ansbald of Prüm
- Saint Ansbert of Rouen
- Saint Ansegisus
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury
- Saint Anselm of Lérins
- Saint Anselm of Nonantola
- Saint Ansgar
- Saint Anthony Kauleas
- Saint Anthony the Abbot
- Saint Antimus of Brantôme
- Saint Antoninus of Sorrento
- Saint Antonius of Rocher
- Saint Apollinaris of Monte Cassino
- Saint Apollo of Heliopolis
- Saint Arbeo of Freising
- Saint Ardanus of Tournus
- Saint Ardo of Aniane
- Saint Armagillus of Brittany
- Saint Arnulf of Soissons
- Saint Astricus of Esztergom
- Saint Athelm of Canterbury
- Saint Attala of Taormina
- Saint Attalas of Bobbio
- Saint Attilanus of Zamora
- Saint Atto of Pistoia
- Saint Atto of Tordino
- Saint Augustine of Canterbury
- Saint Augustus of Bourges
- Saint Aurelian of Lyons
- Saint Austregisilus of Bourges
- Saint Avitus of Micy
- Saint Avitus of Perche
- Saint Bademus
- Saint Badulf of Ainay
- Saint Bagne of Terouanne
- Saint Baithen of Iona
- Saint Barbolenus of Bobbio
- Saint Barbolenus of Fosses
- Saint Bardo of Mainz
- Saint Barsabas
- Saint Barsabias
- Saint Barsenorius
- Saint Bartholomew of Rossano
- Saint Basinus of Trier
- Saint Becan of Kill-Beggan
- Saint Benedict Biscop
- Saint Benedict of Aniane
- Saint Benedict of Macerac
- Saint Benignus
- Saint Benignus of Flay
- Saint Beoc
- Saint Beocca of Chertsey
- Saint Bercharius
- Saint Bercthun of Beverley
- Saint Bercthun of Beverley
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Saint Bernard of Tiron
- Saint Bernardo degli Uberti
- Saint Berno of Cluny
- Saint Bertharius of Monte Cassino
- Saint Bertilo of Dijon
- Saint Bertin the Great
- Saint Bertrand of Saint Quentin
- Saint Bertulf of Luxeuil
- Saint Bertulph
- Saint Besa of Egypt
- Saint Beuno Gasulsych
- Saint Blaithmaic of Iona
- Saint Blitmund of Bobbio
- Saint Bodagisil of Aquitaine
- Saint Bonfilius of Foligno
- Saint Bonitus of Monte Cassino
- Saint Bononius of Lucedio
- Saint Boswell
- Saint Brachio of Auvergne
- Saint Brannock
- Saint Breandan
- Saint Brendan of Birr
- Saint Brendan the Navigator
- Saint Briarch of Bourbriac
- Saint Brithwald of Canterbury
- Saint Brogan of Ross Tuirc
- Saint Budoc of Brittany
- Saint Cadfan
- Saint Cadoc of Llancarvan
- Saint Cadroe
- Saint Cairlon of Cashel
- Saint Calais of Anisola
- Saint Calogerus of Fragalata
- Saint Canice
- Saint Caprasius of Lérins
- Saint Carantoc
- Saint Carilephus
- Saint Castor of Apt
- Saint Cearan the Devout
- Saint Cedd
- Saint Cellach of Armagh
- Saint Ceolfrid
- Saint Chad
- Saint Charles Borromeo
- Saint Christian of Cologne
- Saint Cillene
- Saint Clarus of Vienne
- Saint Claudius of Besançon
- Saint Clement of Santa Lucia
- Saint Clinius of Pontecorvo
- Saint Colgan
- Saint Collen of Denbighshire
- Saint Colman Mc O'Laoighse
- Saint Colman McRhoi
- Saint Colman of Dromore
- Saint Colman of Glendalough
- Saint Colman of Kilmacduagh
- Saint Colman of Kilroot
- Saint Colman of Lismore
- Saint Colman of Senboth-Fola
- Saint Columba of Terryglass
- Saint Columbanus
- Saint Columbanus of Ghent
- Saint Columbinus of Lure
- Saint Comgall of Bangor
- Saint Comgan
- Saint Cominus
- Saint Conall of Inniscoel
- Saint Conall of Inniscoel
- Saint Constantine of Cornwall
- Saint Constantine of Javron
- Saint Constantine of Monte Cassino
- Saint Corbasius of Quimperlé
- Saint Corbmac
- Saint Cormac
- Saint Cornelius McConchailleach
- Saint Credan of Evesham
- Saint Cronan Mochua
- Saint Cronan of Roscrea
- Saint Cuanna of Lismore
- Saint Cumgar
- Saint Cumine the White
- Saint Cummian Fada
- Saint Cunibert of Maroilles
- Saint Curcodomus
- Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
- Saint Cybi of Caenarvon
- Saint Daig MacCairaill
- Saint Daniel the Stylite
- Saint David of Sweden
- Saint Deifer of Bodfari
- Saint Deochar
- Saint Deodatus of Jointures
- Saint Deodatus of Nevers
- Saint Derfel Gadarn
- Saint Dermot of Inis Clothrann
- Saint Deusdedit of Montecassino
- Saint Deyniolen the Younger
- Saint Diman Dubh of Connor
- Saint Dinooth
- Saint Disibod of Disenberg
- Saint Dodo
- Saint Dominic of Sora
- Saint Domnolus of Le Mans
- Saint Donnan of Eigg
- Saint Dorbhene of Iona
- Saint Dorotheus the Younger
- Saint Dotto
- Saint Droctoveus
- Saint Drostan
- Saint Druthmar of Corvey
- Saint Dubricius of Wales
- Saint Dunchadh of Iona
- Saint Dunchaid O'Braoin
- Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
- Saint Eata of Hexham
- Saint Eberhard of Einsiedeln
- Saint Eberhard of Salzburg
- Saint Ebrulf of Ouche
- Saint Ednoth
- Saint Efflam of Brittany
- Saint Egilhard of Cornelimünster
- Saint Egilo
- Saint Eigil
- Saint Elerius
- Saint Eleutherius the Abbot
- Saint Elias
- Saint Elilantus
- Saint Eloque
- Saint Elpidius the Cappadocian
- Saint Elstan of Abingdon
- Saint Emilian Cucullatus
- Saint Emilian of Lagny
- Saint Emmeramus
- Saint Engelmund
- Saint Enguerrammus the Wise
- Saint Enogatus of Aleth
- Saint Eoghan
- Saint Eparchius of Perigord
- Saint Epiphanius of Salamis
- Saint Equitius
- Saint Erconwald of London
- Saint Erembert I of Kremsmünster
- Saint Erkemboden of Thérouanne
- Saint Erlafrid of Hirschau
- Saint Ermin of Lobbes
- Saint Erminold of Prüfening
- Saint Ernan
- Saint Ernest of Mecca
- Saint Esterwine of Wearmouth
- Saint Ethelhard of Canterbury
- Saint Ethelred of Bardney
- Saint Ethelwald of Lindisfarne
- Saint Ethelwold
- Saint Etto
- Saint Eugendus of Condat
- Saint Eusebius of Cremona
- Saint Eustace of Luxeuil
- Saint Eustratius of Olympus
- Saint Euthymius the Illuminator
- Saint Eutychius of Valcastoria
- Saint Evermund of Fontenay
- Saint Failbhe of Iona
- Saint Failbhe the Little
- Saint Fandilas of Penamelaria
- Saint Fantinus of San Mercurius
- Saint Faustus of Syracuse
- Saint Fechin of Fobhar
- Saint Felix of Rhuys
- Saint Feredarius of Iona
- Saint Fibitius
- Saint Fidolus of Aumont
- Saint Fillan
- Saint Finbar of Wexford
- Saint Finian Lobhar
- Saint Finian Munnu
- Saint Finian of Kinnitty
- Saint Finlugh
- Saint Fintan of Clonenagh
- Saint Fintan of Doon
- Saint Fionnchu of Bangor
- Saint Firmian the Abbot
- Saint Florentin of Arles
- Saint Florentius of Bangor
- Saint Florentius of Carracedo
- Saint Florentius of Valcastoria
- Saint Floribert
- Saint Foillan of Fosses
- Saint Forannan
- Saint Fredegand of Kerkelodor
- Saint Fridolin
- Saint Frodobert of Troyes
- Saint Fromundus of Coutances
- Saint Fronto of Nitria
- Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe
- Saint Fulk of Fontenelle
- Saint Fursey of Péronne
- Saint Gamo of Brittany
- Saint Garbhan
- Saint Garcia of Artanza
- Saint Garibaldus of Regensburg
- Saint Gaucherius
- Saint Gelasius of Armagh
- Saint Generosus of Poitou
- Saint Genesius of Lyons
- Saint Genesius, Count of Clermont
- Saint Gennadius of Astorga
- Saint Gennard
- Saint Gerald of Mayo
- Saint Gerald of Sauve-Majeure
- Saint Gerard of Brogne
- Saint Gerard of La-Charite
- Saint Gerard Sagredo
- Saint Gerbold of Bayeux
- Saint Geremarus
- Saint Germanus of Granfield
- Saint Germanus of Paris
- Saint Gervinus
- Saint Gildas the Wise
- Saint Giles
- Saint Giles of Castaneda
- Saint Girald of Fontenelle
- Saint Gislenus
- Saint Goban Gobhnena
- Saint Godfrey of Amiens
- Saint Godo of Oye
- Saint Godwin of Stavelot
- Saint Goscelinus of Turin
- Saint Goswin
- Saint Gredifael
- Saint Gregory of Einsiedeln
- Saint Gregory of Utrecht
- Saint Grimbald
- Saint Guarinus of Sion
- Saint Gudwall
- Saint Guenhael
- Saint Guibertus of Gorze
- Saint Guitmarus
- Saint Guy of Baume
- Saint Guy of Pomposa
- Saint Hadelin of Sees
- Saint Hadulph of Arras
- Saint Hedda of Peterborough
- Saint Hedda the Abbot
- Saint Heldrad of Novalese
- Saint Heribaldus of Auxerre
- Saint Herve
- Saint Hilarion of Pelecete
- Saint Hildebert of Ghent
- Saint Hildebrand of Saint-Gilles
- Saint Hildegrin of Chalons
- Saint Honoratus of Fondi
- Saint Hugh of Cluny
- Saint Hugh of Lincoln
- Saint Hugh of Rouen
- Saint Humbert of Pelagius
- Saint Humphrey of Prüm
- Saint Hypatius of Chalcedon
- Saint Iñigo of Oña
- Saint Ibar of Meath
- Saint Isaac of Constantinople
- Saint Isidore of Pelusium
- Saint Jean of Réomay
- Saint John Climacus
- Saint John of Kathara
- Saint John of Meda
- Saint John of Parma
- Saint John the Syrian of Pinna
- Saint Julian of Toledo
- Saint Kentigern
- Saint Kevin of Glendalough
- Saint Lactali of Freshford
- Saint Lambert of Lyon
- Saint Landelin of Crespin
- Saint Landericus of Soignies
- Saint Lawrence O'Toole
- Saint Leo of Troyes
- Saint Leobinus of Chartres
- Saint Leodegarius of Autun
- Saint Leonard of Vandoeuvre
- Saint Leothadius of Auch
- Saint Liberatus of North Africa
- Saint Lidanus of Sezze
- Saint Liphardus of Orleans
- Saint Lleudadd of Bardsey
- Saint Ludolf
- Saint Luke Casali
- Saint Macanisius
- Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker
- Saint Maccalin of Waulsort
- Saint Machabeo of Armagh
- Saint Machai
- Saint Maedhog of Clonmore
- Saint Maelruan
- Saint Maelrubius of Applecross
- Saint Maglorius of Wales
- Saint Maidoc of Fiddown
- Saint Majolus of Cluny
- Saint Malachy O'More
- Saint Mamertinus of Auxerre
- Saint Martin of Braga
- Saint Martinian of Belozersk
- Saint Maurontus of Marseilles
- Saint Maurus
- Saint Maximinus of Micy
- Saint Maximus of Riez
- Saint Mayeul
- Saint Medericus
- Saint Megingaud of Würzburg
- Saint Mellitus of Canterbury
- Saint Mochelloc of Kilmallock
- Saint Mochoemoc
- Saint Modan
- Saint Mundus
- Saint Mura McFeredach
- Saint Nanterius of Saint-Mihiel
- Saint Nicetas of Medicion
- Saint Nicetius of Trier
- Saint Nicholas of Myra
- Saint Nidger of Augsburg
- Saint Nissen of Wexford
- Saint Nunctus of Mérida
- Saint Oderisius de Marsi
- Saint Odilo of Cluny
- Saint Odo of Cluny
- Saint Odo of Massay
- Saint Odrian of Waterford
- Saint Oduvald of Melrose
- Saint Ortario of Landelles
- Saint Othmar of Saint Gall
- Saint Pachomius of Tabenna
- Saint Palladius of Auxerre
- Saint Paschasius Radbertus
- Saint Paternus of Wales
- Saint Patto of Werden
- Saint Peter of Alcantara
- Saint Peter of Canterbury
- Saint Peter of Sebaste
- Saint Peter of Tarentaise
- Saint Petroc
- Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino
- Saint Placid of Autun
- Saint Porcarius of Lérins
- Saint Publius of Zeugma
- Saint Regimbald of Speyer
- Saint Remigius of Strasbourg
- Saint Renovatus of Merida
- Saint Richarius of Celles
- Saint Rigobert of Rheims
- Saint Robert of Molesme
- Saint Robert of Syracuse
- Saint Romanus of Condat
- Saint Romanus of Subiaco
- Saint Romaric of Remiremont
- Saint Romuald
- Saint Romulus the Abbot
- Saint Ruadhan of Lorrha
- Saint Rudesind
- Saint Rupert of Salzburg
- Saint Sandratus
- Saint Sedna of Ossory
- Saint Serenicus of Hyesmes
- Saint Severinus of Agaunum
- Saint Severus of Avranches
- Saint Sigfrid of Wearmouth
- Saint Sigolinus of Stavelot
- Saint Silaus of Lucca
- Saint Simplicius of Monte Cassino
- Saint Spes of Campi
- Saint Stephen Harding
- Saint Stephen of Cajazzo
- Saint Stephen of Muret
- Saint Stephen of Obazine
- Saint Sylvester of Réome
- Saint Tanco of Werden
- Saint Taso
- Saint Tato
- Saint Teilo of Llandaff
- Saint Tetricus of Auxerre
- Saint Theodore of Croyland
- Saint Theodore of Vienne
- Saint Theodoric of Mont d'Or
- Saint Theofrid
- Saint Theoger
- Saint Theophanes the Chronographer
- Saint Thiento of Wessobrunn
- Saint Tigernach of Clogher
- Saint Tola
- Saint Trien of Killelga
- Saint Trudpert of Münstertal
- Saint Tudy
- Saint Ultan of Péronne
- Saint Urban of Peñalba
- Saint Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
- Saint Ursmar
- Saint Valentine of Passau
- Saint Venantius
- Saint Veremundus of Irache
- Saint Vincent of Montes
- Saint Virgilius of Salzburg
- Saint Vitalis of Salzburg
- Saint Waldebert of Luxeuil
- Saint Walter of Fontenelle
- Saint Walter of Pontoise
- Saint Walter of Serviliano
- Saint Waltmann of Cambrai
- Saint Waltram
- Saint Wando of Fontenelle
- Saint Waningus of Fécamp
- Saint Wicterp of Augsburg
- Saint Wilfrid the Younger
- Saint Willeic
- Saint William of Bourges
- Saint William of Eskilsoe
- Saint William of Vercelli
- Saint Winebald
- Saint Winebald of Heidenheim
- Saint Winewald of Beverley
- Saint Winwallus
- Saint Ysarn of Saint Victor
- Saint Zosimus of Syracuse
- Venerable Cesare Baronio
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