" 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 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 was a lay theologian and scholar of critical ability.

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.

On being elected to the Papacy Julius raised the now 17-year old but still uncouth and quasi-illiterate Innocenzo to the cardinalate, appointed him cardinal-nephew, and showering the boy with benefices – Abbot commendatario of the abbeys of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, S. Zeno in Verona, June 1552, later of the abbeys of S. Saba, Miramondo, and of Grottaferrata, Frascati, and other appointments – to the point where his income was one of the highest in Europe.

He then accompanied Abbot Bruno of Toul to Rome ; there, Bruno was elected Pope, choosing the name Leo IX, and named Hildebrand as deacon and papal administrator.

* Philip Manahan elected Abbot 10 December 2003.

He attempted to secure the right of Gilbert Foliot to remain Abbot of Gloucester after Foliot's election as Bishop of Hereford, but a new abbot was elected by the monks of Gloucester.

In 1621, Abbot was elected Member of Parliament for Hull.

The description reads: " The first Session was begun by Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow ; Alexander Myln, Abbot of Cambuskenneth, Lord President ; Master Richard Bothuile, Rector of Ashkirk ; Sir John Dingwell, Provost of the Church of the Holy Trinity, near Edinburgh ; Master Henry Quhyte, Rector of the Church of Finhaven ; Master William Gibson, Dean of the Collegiate Church of Restlerig ; Master Thomas Hay, Dean of the Collegiate Church of Dunbar, all elected by our Sovereign Lord the King.

Saint Malachy was elected Abbot of the monastery in 1123, a year before being consecrated Bishop of Connor.

Abbot was then elected a fellow of Corpus Christi where, acting as a tutor to the son of Sir Francis Buller, he first considered becoming a barrister.

He was elected Abbot of Chester in 1455 and appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man on 11 or 15 February 1478, holding both posts until his death.

Hugh Cook Faringdon was elected Abbot of Reading Abbey in 1520, upon the death of Abbot Thomas Worcester.

Martin ( Stefan ) Werlen, the 58th Abbot of Einsiedeln was elected in 2001.

The Abbot of Grandmont was to be elected by his own community, and not, as before, by the deputies of the whole order.

The administration was entrusted to four knights elected by the chapter, and from this period date the definitive statutes of the order known as " Rules of Abbot William III " ( 1467 ).

In 1809 Zurla was elected a Definitor of his Congregation and given the title of Abbot.

Carr received permission to leave the Franciscans and join the Trappist monks in Monks Corner, S. C. ( Within five years he was named Prior of the abbey, and a few years after that he was elected Abbot.

In September 2007 Dom Michael Kelly, O. S. B., a monk of the Australian monastery, was elected as the 115th Abbot General of the congregation.

In 1946 the community elected him as their Abbot, which he remained for twenty years until his consecration in 1966 as Titular Bishop of Nova Barbara and Auxiliary Bishop to Cardinal John Carmel Heenan in the Archdiocese of Westminster.

The last abbot of Beaulieu was Abbot Thomas Stevens, elected in 1536.

After being elected Chairman of the Fo Guang Shan Religious Affairs Board, more commonly known as the " Chief Abbot " of Fo Guang Shan worldwide, that the then-Ven.

The remaining bishops elected Bishop Mael, Abbot of the Monastère de la Saint-Présence, as Primate and Metropolitan.

He was elected Abbot of St Augustine's in about 975 to 990, and consecrated by Archbishop Dunstan as Bishop of Ramsbury in 985 or 986.

Ordric was a monk at Abingdon who was elected Abbot of Abingdon in 1052 AD and died in 1066.