abbacy

You've refused every office anyone has tried to give you and turned down the abbacy three times.

He would spend much of his abbacy there also.

It is a territorial abbacy and, therefore, not part of a diocese.

Certainly in the four years of my abbacy here I have found no fault in your true service.

As a result, William resigned the abbacy in April 1170.

"The one man I'd trust to take the abbacy and to keep it as it should be kept."

An example brought up relating to lay property rights was the abbacy of Arbroath.

During his abbacy three colonies of monks were sent out to found new monasteries.

Seized the abbacy in 1052, possibly deposed, d. 1096.

In 1064 they record his death, and add that "Maelisa assumed the abbacy".

He resigned his abbacy in 1695, owing to declining health, and died in 1700.

A Protestant abbacy was re-established in 1651, with the seminary reopening five years later.

In the 12th to 15th centuries, however, the abbacy experienced a slow decline.

The cause of the battle was a feud within the abbacy of Armagh.

On September 26, 1937, the Abby was made a Territorial abbacy.

His abbacy lasted until 17 February 1124.

His abbacy marked the end of a confused period which saw four abbots in the space of two years.

The sources on Ratgar's abbacy provide conflicting pictures of his rule.

Several years of litigation followed, and after being offered a substantial pension, Blackadder resigned the abbacy in 1476.

Whatever his origin, Diarmait's abbacy was a troublesome one.

Events which occurred during his abbacy included:

He made a few property acquisitions, but his abbacy comes at the start of an obscure period in Farfa's history.

Even after leaving the abbacy of Tavistock, he continued to hold two properties from the abbey until his death.

During his abbacy the abbey was transformed from a small church establishment into a large Romanesque monastery, finally dedicated in 1150.

His abbacy may therefore have begun any time after that and it ended some time after October 757.