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
- Saint Attalas of Bobbio
- Saint Benedict Biscop
- Saint Benedict of Aniane
- Saint Columbanus
- Saint Ermin of Lobbes
- Saint Fursey of Péronne
- Saint Gall
- Saint Leonard of Noblac
- Saint Madron of Cornwall
- Saint Maurus
- Saint Odilo of Cluny
- Saint Othmar of Saint Gall
- 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 Abraham of Strelna
- Blessed Amadeus of Lausanne
- Blessed Arnold of Padua
- Blessed Christian O'Conarchy
- Blessed Columba Marmion
- Blessed Daniel of Cambron
- Blessed Gerard of Bourgogne
- Blessed Gerard of Orchimont
- Blessed Gervinus of Aldenberg
- Blessed Guy of Vicogne
- Blessed Hugh of Bonnevaux
- Blessed James of Certaldo
- Blessed John Beche
- Blessed John of Grace-Dieu
- Blessed John Sordi
- Blessed Klymentii Sheptytskyi
- Blessed Ladislas of Gielniów
- Blessed Marianus Scotus
- Blessed Peter of Montepiano
- Blessed Utto of Metten
- Blessed Ventura of Spello
- Blessed Walter of Quesnoy
- Blessed William of Maleval
- Blessed Wirnto of Formbach
- Saint Abban of Kill-Abban
- Saint Abbo of Fleury
- Saint Adalbero of Augsburg
- Saint Adamnan of Iona
- Saint Adelard of Corbie
- Saint Adrian of Canterbury
- Saint Aelred
- Saint Agericus of Tours
- Saint Agigulf
- Saint Agilus
- Saint Agnellus of Naples
- Saint Agofridus of Lacroix
- Saint Aichardus
- Saint Aid of Achard-Finglas
- Saint Aigulphus of Lérins
- Saint Alberic of Citeaux
- Saint Albinus of Angers
- Saint Aldhelm of Sherborne
- Saint Aldo of Hasnon
- Saint Aldwine of Peartney
- Saint Alferius of La Cava
- Saint Alphege of Winchester
- Saint Amarand
- Saint Anastasius of Sinai
- Saint Andrew of Strumi
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury
- Saint Anthony the Abbot
- Saint Antonius of Rocher
- Saint Arbeo of Freising
- Saint Ardo of Aniane
- Saint Arnulf of Soissons
- Saint Attala of Taormina
- Saint Attalas of Bobbio
- Saint Austregisilus of Bourges
- Saint Avitus of Micy
- Saint Bademus
- Saint Becan of Kill-Beggan
- Saint Benedict Biscop
- Saint Benedict of Aniane
- Saint Benignus of Flay
- Saint Beocca of Chertsey
- Saint Bercharius
- Saint Bercthun of Beverley
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Saint Bertilo of Dijon
- Saint Beuno Gasulsych
- Saint Brendan the Navigator
- Saint Brithwald of Canterbury
- Saint Budoc of Brittany
- Saint Cadroe
- Saint Cairlon of Cashel
- Saint Canice
- Saint Castor of Apt
- Saint Cellach of Armagh
- Saint Chad
- Saint Charles Borromeo
- Saint Clinius of Pontecorvo
- Saint Colman Mc O'Laoighse
- Saint Colman of Dromore
- Saint Colman of Kilmacduagh
- Saint Columba of Terryglass
- Saint Columbanus
- Saint Conall of Inniscoel
- Saint Conon of Nesi
- Saint Constantine of Cornwall
- Saint Cornelius McConchailleach
- Saint Cronan Mochua
- Saint Cronan of Roscrea
- Saint Cumgar
- Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
- Saint Daniel the Stylite
- Saint Derfel Gadarn
- Saint Domnolus of Le Mans
- Saint Donnan of Eigg
- Saint Dotto
- Saint Droctoveus
- Saint Dunchadh of Iona
- Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
- Saint Egilhard of Cornelimünster
- Saint Elias
- Saint Elpidius the Cappadocian
- Saint Emilian Cucullatus
- Saint Emilian of Lagny
- Saint Erkemboden of Thérouanne
- Saint Ermin of Lobbes
- Saint Esterwine of Wearmouth
- Saint Ethelhard of Canterbury
- Saint Ethelred of Bardney
- Saint Ethelwald of Lindisfarne
- Saint Etto
- Saint Eustace of Luxeuil
- Saint Eutychius of Valcastoria
- Saint Failbhe of Iona
- Saint Failbhe the Little
- Saint Fidolus of Aumont
- Saint Fillan
- Saint Finian Lobhar
- Saint Finian of Kinnitty
- Saint Firmian the Abbot
- Saint Florentius of Valcastoria
- Saint Foillan of Fosses
- Saint Forannan
- Saint Fridolin
- Saint Fursey of Péronne
- Saint Gaucherius
- Saint Gennard
- Saint Gerald
- Saint Gerald of Sauve-Majeure
- Saint Gerbold
- Saint Gildas the Wise
- Saint Giles
- Saint Guy of Pomposa
- Saint Hadelin of Sees
- Saint Hedda of Peterborough
- Saint Hedda the Abbot
- Saint Heldrad of Novalese
- Saint Heribaldus of Auxerre
- Saint Hildebrand of Saint-Gilles
- Saint Hugh of Cluny
- Saint Hugh of Lincoln
- Saint Hugh of Rouen
- Saint Humbert of Pelagius
- Saint Humphrey of Prüm
- Saint Iñigo of Oña
- Saint Ibar of Meath
- Saint John of Constantinople
- Saint John of Parma
- Saint John the Syrian of Pinna
- Saint Julian of Toledo
- Saint Kentigern
- Saint Kevin of Glendalough
- Saint Lactali
- Saint Lambert of Lyon
- Saint Landericus of Soignies
- Saint Lawrence O'Toole
- Saint Leo of Troyes
- Saint Leobinus of Chartres
- Saint Macanisius
- Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker
- Saint Machabeo of Armagh
- Saint Machai
- Saint Maedhog of Clonmore
- Saint Maelrubius of Applecross
- Saint Maidoc of Fiddown
- Saint Malachy O'More
- Saint Mamertinus of Auxerre
- Saint Martin of Braga
- Saint Maurus
- Saint Maximus of Riez
- Saint Megingaud of Würzburg
- Saint Mellitus of Canterbury
- Saint Mochoemoc
- Saint Modan
- Saint Mundus
- Saint Mura McFeredach
- Saint Nicetas of Medicion
- Saint Nicholas of Myra
- Saint Nidger of Augsburg
- Saint Odilo of Cluny
- Saint Oduvald of Melrose
- 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 Petronax of Monte Cassino
- Saint Placid of Autun
- Saint Remigius of Strasbourg
- Saint Renovatus of Merida
- Saint Richarius of Celles
- Saint Robert of Molesme
- Saint Robert of Syracuse
- Saint Romuald
- Saint Romulus the Abbot
- Saint Ruadhan of Lorrha
- Saint Rudesind
- Saint Rupert of Salzburg
- Saint Sedna of Ossory
- Saint Serenicus of Hyesmes
- Saint Severus of Avranches
- Saint Silaus of Lucca
- Saint Spes of Campi
- Saint Stephen of Cajazzo
- Saint Stephen of Muret
- Saint Stephen of Obazine
- Saint Sylvester of Réome
- Saint Tetricus of Auxerre
- Saint Theodore of Croyland
- Saint Theophanes the Chronographer
- Saint Tigernach of Clogher
- Saint Tola
- Saint Trien of Killelga
- Saint Trudpert of Münstertal
- Saint Ultan of Péronne
- Saint Urban of Peñalba
- Saint Ursmar
- Saint Vincent of Montes
- Saint Waldebert of Luxeuil
- Saint Waltmann of Cambrai
- Saint Wando of Fontenelle
- Saint Wicterp of Augsburg
- Saint Wilfrid the Younger
- Saint William of Bourges
- Saint William of Eskilsoe
- Saint William of Vercelli
- Saint Winebald
- Saint Winewald of Beverley
- Saint Winwallus
- Saint Zosimus of Syracuse
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