" The Abbot " was a nickname of RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.

He was made Abbot of Saint Martin's at Tours in 796, where he remained until his death.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

Ealdred ( or Aldred ; died 11 September 1069 ) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England.

After becoming a monk at the monastery at Winchester, he was appointed Abbot of Tavistock Abbey in around 1027.

Another relative was Wilstan or Wulfstan, who under Ealdred's influence became Abbot of Gloucester.

The last Abbot was Cardinal David Beaton, who in 1522 succeeded his uncle James to become Archbishop of St Andrews.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

251 – 356 ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius ( Ἀββᾶς Ἀντώνιος ), and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers.

These followers, he says, are Constantinus, who succeeded Benedict as Abbot of Monte Cassino ; Valentinianus ; Simplicius ; and Honoratus, who was abbot of Subiaco when St Gregory wrote his Dialogues.

The Benedictine Confederation, which was established in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII in his brief Summum semper, is the international governing body of the order, headed by the Abbot Primate.

The episode was often depicted ; notably, in the The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit by Stefano di Giovanni called " Sassetta ", of two episodic depictions in a single panel of the hermit Anthony's travel to greet the hermit Paul, one is his encounter along the pathway with the demonic figure of a centaur in a wood.

Prince Louis was sent to Bordeaux with an escort of 500 knights, as well as Abbot Suger, Theobald II, Count of Champagne and Count Ralph.

Her conduct was repeatedly criticized by Church elders ( particularly Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbot Suger ) as indecorous.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

Abbot was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861.

Abbot was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of a struggling Chicago musician.

Abbot was son or grandson ( it is not clear which ) of Sir Thomas Abbot of Easington, East Yorkshire and his mother ( or grandmother ) was of the ancient house of Pickering.

Abbot died in his 44th year and was buried in Charlecote church where his monument describes his defence of Charlecote.

Abbot has been confused with others of the same name and has been described as a clergyman, which he never was.

Yet when the latter lay dying at Salerno on 25 May 1085, the Abbot of Monte Cassino was one of those whom he recommended to the cardinals of southern Italy as fittest to succeed him.

In August a council or synod of some importance was held at Benevento, which renewed the excommunication of the antipope Clement III and the condemnation of lay investiture, proclaimed a kind of crusade against the Saracens in northern Africa and anathematised Hugh of Lyons and Richard, Abbot of Marseilles.

It is noted that in the year 1141, under Abbot Radulfus, 53 brothers, seven novices and six school boys live at the Abbey, not including lay stewards and servants.

Abbot Pennings later started a commerce program at the college for lay students before retiring in 1955.

So in Italy the lay Brothers were instituted ; and we find similar attempts at organization at the Abbey of St. Benignus at Dijon, under William of Dijon ( d. 1031 ) and Richard of Verdun ( d. 1046 ), while at Hirschau, Abbot William ( d. 1091 ) gave a special rule to the fratres barbati and exteriores.

In the eleventh century, Abbot William of Hirschau or Hirsau, in the old Diocese of Spires, introduced lay brethren into the monastery.

In 1970, urged by the Abbot of the Abbey of Hauterive and the Dominican theologian Father Marie-Dominique Philippe to teach the seminarians personally, Lefebvre approached François Charrière, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, with a request to set up a religious society.

In 1970, urged by the Abbot of Hauterive and the Dominican theologian and priest, Fr.

Sant ' Anselmo, named after the Italian saint and theologian, Anselm of Canterbury, is the home of the Abbot Primate of the Benedictines, seat of the Benedictine Confederation, and also hosts an Athenaeum, including the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, and the Philosophy and Theology faculties.

During the winter of 1940 – 1941, the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( 1906 – 1945 ) spent some months at the monastery as the friend and guest of the Abbot.

* Adrian of Canterbury ( died 710 ), scholar and Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury

* Adrian of Canterbury ( died 710 ), scholar and the Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury

* March 21 – Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar ( b. 1819 )

* April 28 – Ezra Abbot, American Biblical scholar ( d. 1884 )

Aldhelm () ( c. 639 – 25 May 709 ), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature, was born before the middle of the 7th century.

He officiated as chaplain to the garrison, preaching once each Sunday to the soldiers, and once to the townspeople and strangers, including Sir Richard Skeffington, Colonel Godfrey Bosvile, George Abbot the layman scholar, and others.

Fernand Cabrol, monk and scholar became Prior and, later, Abbot at the Benedictine abbey.

Saint Adrian ( or Hadrian ) of Canterbury ( died 710 ) was a famous scholar and the Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury in the English county of Kent.

Basil Christopher Butler OSB ( 7 May 1902 – 20 September 1986 ), was a convert from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church, a Roman Catholic priest, the 7th Abbot of Downside Abbey, one-time Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation, a bishop, an internationally respected scripture scholar, a consistent defender of the priority of the Gospel according to Matthew, and perhaps the pre-eminent English-speaking Council Father at the Second Vatican Council ( Vatican II, 1962 – 1965 ).

It was in his capacity as Abbot President ( 1961 – 1966 ) of the English Benedictine Congregation and as an outstanding scripture scholar, that Butler was called to Rome to participate in Vatican II ( 1962 – 1965 ).

* Geoffrey de Gorham ( d. 1146 ), scholar, Abbot of St Albans Abbey 1119 – 1146

* John Whethamstede ( or Bostock ) ( c. 1392 – 1465 ), scholar, writer and Abbot of St Albans Abbey