* Saint Anastasius Sinaita ( of Sinai ) – theologian, Father of the Eastern Orthodox Church, monk, priest, and abbot of the monastery at Mt.

* Anastasius of Suppentonia – abbot ( died 570 )

Hildegard communicated with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier in 1147 and 1148.

During the pontificate of Pope Nicholas I ( 858 – 867 ) Anastasius was abbot of Santa Maria in Trastevere on the farther side of the Tiber.

The freedmen, who felt betrayed by the nobles due to the peace treaty, sacked the Harzburg in a frenzy, destroyed the castle, and committed such acts of sacrilege ( tossing the bones of members of the royal family, along with those of an abbot and St. Anastasius ) that they shocked the local population and the religious authorities.

* Saint Anastasius of Sinai, abbot

Astrik ( Anastasius ) served as its first abbot.

: PG 89: Anastasius Sinaita, Anastasius of Antioch, Anastasius ( abbot of Euthymius ), Anastasius IV Patriarch of Antioch, Antiochus of Sabe

Radla is sometimes identified with Anastasius, the first abbot of Břevnov Monastery ( from 993 ) or with Astrik ( Anastasius ), bishop of the Hungarians in Esztergom.

* Anastasius ( Graeco-Roman jurist )-6th century

* Anastasius, a novel by Thomas Hope in the early 19th century.

In the 16th century, Onofrio Panvinio attributed the biographies after Damasus until Pope Nicholas I ( 858 – 867 ) to Anastasius Bibliothecarius ; Anastasius continued to be cited as the author into the 17th century, although this attribution was disputed by the scholarship of Caesar Baronius, Ciampini, Schelstrate and others.

The Barberini ivory, a 6th century ivory diptych representing either Anastasius or Justinian I.

of De Boor's edition ) was made by the papal librarian Anastasius from the chronicles of Patriarch Nicephorus, George Syncellus, and Theophanes for the use of a deacon named Johannes in the second half of the ninth century, and thus was known to Western Europe.

Since the fourth century, Salona honored in its large basilicas its glorious martyrs from the times of Diocletian's persecution: St. Domnius ( Latin: Domnius ; Croatian: Duje ; Italian: Domnio ), craftsman Anastasius the Fuller, deacon Septimia, priest Asteria and others.

In the 14th urteenth century, a few small collections followed: the Constitutiones Clementinae or Clementines ( 1317 ), edited by Anastasius Germonius and published by pope John XXII, and the Extravagantes Johannes XXII ( 1325-1327 ).

Anastasius learned the Greek language from Eastern Roman monks and obtained an unusual education for his era, such that he appears to be the most learned ecclesiastic of Rome in the barbaric period of the 9th century.

* Saints Theodore and Euprepius, and two men named Anastasius ( 7th century ), confessors and disciples of Saint Maximos the Confessor

* Timotheus of Gaza, 5th century Greek grammarian active during the reign of Anastasius

* The Anastasian Wall, also known as the Long Walls of Thrace, was constructed by Byzantine emperor Anastasius I ( 491-518 ) as part of an additional outer defense system for Constantinople during the 5th century and probably was in use until the 7th century.

The first permanent Byzantine fleet can be traced to the early 6th century and the revolt of Vitalian in 513 – 515, when Anastasius I created a fleet to counter the rebels ' own.

* Anastasius ( 11th century )

* Euthymius the Great, abbot and bishop ( b. 377 )

* Euthymius the Great, abbot and bishop ( d. 473 )

* Martyr Thomas, abbot, and 26 martyr-monks: Barsanuphius, Cyril, Micah, Simon, Hilarion, James, Job, Cyprian, Sabbas, James, Martinian, Cosmas, Sergius, Paul, Menas, Ioasaph, Ioanicius, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian, Partenius, and others of Zographou Monastery on Mount Athos, martyred by the Latins ( Roman Catholic Crusaders ) ( 1284 )

* Monk-martyr Euthymius, abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist at David Gareja monastery complex, Georgia ( 1804 )

It produced the Gospels of McRegol, named after the abbot at the turn of the 8th / 9th century and now to be seen in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

The shrine known as the Domhnach Airgid (" silver church ") was originally 8th century, but little is visible from before a major reworking around 1350 by the abbot of Clones.

The second half of the 8th century seems to have been a time of very general decadence ; but about the year 800 Theodore, destined to be the only other creative name in Greek monachism, became abbot of the monastery of the Studium in Constantinople.

() was a renowned 8th century Indian Buddhist Brahmin and abbot of Nalanda University.

* 887 ( Ninna 4, 8th month ): Construction of the newly created Buddhist temple of was completed ; and a former disciple of Kōbō-daishi was installed as the new abbot.

St. Dominic of Silos enthroned as abbot ( Hispano-Flemish Gothic 15th century )

The change spread more slowly in the West, where the office of abbot was commonly filled by laymen till the end of the 7th century.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

Adomnán, the 7th century abbot of Iona, records Colonsay as Colosus and Tiree as Ethica, both of which may be pre-Celtic names.

Saint Piran or Perran ( traditionally in Cornwall, saints are simply named, without this title ) () is an early 6th century Cornish abbot and saint, supposedly of Irish origin.

In the 9th century, Tours was at the heart of the Carolingian Rebirth, in particular because of Alcuin abbot of Marmoutier.

It was rebuilt and reached the apex of its fame in the 11th century under the abbot Desiderius ( abbot 1058-1087 ), who later became Pope Victor III.

Liebermann's more subtle position seems to be vindicated by testimony from abbot Ælfric of Eynsham, the leading homilist of the late 10th century, who wrote: No man can make himself king, but the people has the choice to choose as king whom they please ; but after he is consecrated as king, he then has dominion over the people, and they cannot shake his yoke off their necks.

The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 12th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest: the abbot often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right.

The 16th century diary of abbot Eishun ( Tamon-in Nikki ) at Tamon-in monastery in Kōfuku-ji describes an arson attack on a castle by men of the Iga clans.

At the same time the church became more tolerant of war in the defense of faith, espousing theories of the just war ; and liturgies were introduced which blessed a knight's sword, and a bath of chivalric purification. The first noted support for chivalric vocation, or the establishment of knightly class to ensure the sanctity and legitimacy of Christianity was written in 930 by Odo, abbot of Cluny in the Vita of St. Gerald of Aurillac, which argued that the sanctity of Christ and Christian doctrine can be demonstrated through the legitimate unsheathing of the “ sword against the enemy .” In the 11th century the concept of a " knight of Christ " ( miles Christi ) gained currency in France, Spain and Italy.

During the late 5th and 6th centuries true monasteries became the most important centres: in Patrick's own see of Armagh the change seems to have happened before the end of the 5th century, thereafter the bishop was the abbot also.

The Ionan Easter had already resulted in conflict in Gaul, in the early seventh century, between Frankish monasteries and Ionan monasteries ( the latter had been founded there by the Ionan abbot St. Columbanus ), and the Ionan tables had been rejected.

These materials were used by a continuator who wrote in the middle of the 15th century, and who is identified with Walter Bower, abbot of the monastery of Inchcolm.

Some time in the late 11th or early 12th century Theobald became a monk at the Abbey of Bec, rising to the position of abbot in 1137.

Theobald entered the Abbey of Bec in Normandy as a Benedictine monk in the late 11th or early 12th century, while William was the third abbot.

* Tankrad, abbot of Prüm Abbey in the ninth century

Abbas Benedictus ( died 1194 ), abbot of Peterborough, whose name is accidentally connected with the Gesta Henrici Regis Secundi and Gesta Regis Ricardi, among the most valuable of English 12th century chronicles, which are now attributed to Roger of Howden.

The elements in Bon that strongly resemble Buddhism became apparent with the codification of the yungdrung Bon canon by the first abbot of Menri Monastery, Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen in the 14th century, but a trend towards this probably began earlier.