It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.

Ealdred was a monk in the cathedral chapter at Winchester Cathedral before becoming abbot of Tavistock Abbey about 1027, an office he held until about 1043.

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

Some scholars have claimed that the vow formula of the Rule is best translated as " to live in this place as a monk, in obedience to its rule and abbot.

This was inaugurated by Montalembert, but its literary advocates were chiefly Dom Gueranger, a learned Benedictine monk, abbot of Solesmes, and Louis François Veuillot ( 1813 – 1883 ) of the Univers ; and it succeeded in suppressing them everywhere, the last diocese to surrender being Orleans in 1875.

Bruno spent much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot John Canaparius may have written a life of Saint Adalbert.

About the year 1337, hesychasm attracted the attention of a learned member of the Orthodox Church, Barlaam, a Calabrian monk who at that time held the office of abbot in the Monastery of St Saviour in Constantinople and who visited Mount Athos.

Using reports that the abbot had been lining his own pockets rather than spending it on his monastery, Honorius publicly denounced Oderisio, calling him a soldier and a thief, not a monk.

The details of Gerbert's armillary sphere are revealed in letters from Gerbert to his former student and monk Remi of Trèves, his colleague Constantine, the abbot of Micy, as well as the accounts of his former student and French nobleman Richer, who served as a monk in Rheims.

Guests are to be met with due courtesy by the abbot or his deputy ; during their stay they are to be under the special protection of an appointed monk ; they are not to associate with the rest of the community except by special permission.

A stele erected by Shaolin abbot Wenzai in 1517 shows the deity's vajra-club had by then been changed to a Chinese staff, which originally " served as the emblem of the monk ".

A young monk lapses into seducing a young woman and is secretly observed by an elder abbot.

The monk and the abbot quickly rush the woman out of the monastery and often bring her back in.

* Dorotheus of Gaza, Christian monk and abbot ( approximate date )

In Eastern Orthodoxy, a monk or a nun is given a saint's name by their bishop or abbot at the time of their tonsure as the new monk's or nun's first act of monastic obedience.

Theodore the Studite ( also known as Theodorus Studita, St. Theodore of Stoudios, and St. Theodore of Studium ; 759 – 826 ) was a Byzantine Greek monk and abbot of the Stoudios monastery in Constantinople.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk of Cîteaux Abbey, left it to found Clairvaux Abbey in 1115, of which he was the first abbot.

Priests ( also called presbyters ) may ( or may not ) have the title of archpriest, protopresbyter ( also called " protopriest ", or " protopope "), hieromonk ( a monk who has been ordained to the priesthood ) archimandrite ( a senior hieromonk ) and Hegumen ( abbot ).

* Adelin of Séez, Benedictine monk and abbot at the abbey of Anisole

Setting out shortly after Christmas, he met with abbot Hugh of Cluny at Besançon, where he was joined by the young monk Hildebrand, who afterwards became Pope Gregory VII ; arriving in pilgrim garb at Rome in the following February, he was received with much cordiality, and at his consecration assumed the name Leo IX.

Some of these were merely agricultural estates with a single foreign monk in residence to supervise things, others were rich foundations in their own right ( e. g. Lewes Priory which was a daughter of Cluny and answered to the abbot of that great French house ).

When he was 20 years old, in about 1411, he received the name Gendun Drubpa upon taking the vows of a fully ordained monk, or Gelong, from the abbot of Narthang Monastery.

The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.

One of Bede ’ s correspondents was Albinus, who was abbot of the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul ( subsequently renamed St. Augustine's ) in Canterbury.

To an illiterate population, it appeared the bishop or abbot was now the king ’ s inferior and owed his position to the king.

At this time, under the abbot Gilduin, Saint Victor was a thriving community and upon Gilduin ’ s death, the abbey had 44 dependant houses of canons.

The abbot of Bisham, John Cordery, is said to have cursed the building thus: " As God is my witness, this property shall ne ’ er be inherited by two direct successors, for its sons will be hounded by misfortune ", as he was dragged from it.

" For the church was the first thing that was spoiled ; then the abbot ’ s lodging, the dormitory and refectory, with the cloister and all the buildings around, within the abbey walls ," wrote Sherbrook in his eyewitness account.

His Eucharistic treatise, De corpora et sanguine Domini ( On the Body and Blood of the Lord ), was a counterpoint to his abbot Paschasius Radbertus ’ realist Eucharistic theology.

Little is known of Ratramnus ’ life, but some have suggested that he became the teaching master at the Benedictine monastery of Corbie in 844, when Paschasius Radbertus was made abbot.

The actual nucleus of the early part of Roger ’ s Flowers of History is supposed to have been the compilation of John de Cella ( also known as John of Wallingford ), who was abbot of St Albans from 1195 to 1214, although that is inconclusive.

On the southwest shore are Boat Cave and Mackinnon ’ s Cave ( named after a 15th-century abbot of Iona ), which has a tunnel connecting it to Cormorant Cave.

This was the time when abbot Adelardus, reporting to the Bishop of Metz, built the abbey ’ s main church and two additional churches in town: Our Lady ( Lievenvrouwenkerk ) and Sint-Gangulfus.

One of Bede ’ s correspondents was Albinus, abbot of the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul ( subsequently renamed St. Augustine's ) in Canterbury.

Following the example of the Lord by humbling himself, he resigned his bishop ’ s see, and became abbot of the monastery.

In 1092, after a fire in the chapter house, the abbot had Waltheof ’ s body moved to a prominent place in the abbey church.

In the Eastern monastic tradition, novices may or may not dress in the black inner cassock ( Greek: Anterion, Eisorasson ; Slavonic: Podriasnik ) and wear the soft monastic hat ( Greek: Skoufos, Slavonic: Skufia ), depending on the tradition of the local community, and in accordance to the abbot ’ s directives.

The last abbot, John Bourchen, surrendered the abbey to Thomas Cromwell, Wolsey ’ s old secretary.

Here is an example of Kyrill ’ s humility topos taken from " A Tale of a layman, and on monasticism, and on the soul, and on repentance "; by the most sinful monk Kirill, for Vasilij, abbot of the Caves: “( 52 ) And me: I beg you, do not spurn me like a dog, but remember me even here in your prayers, and there throw me scraps from that holy table, and may all Christians be judged worthy of that life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom glory with the Father and with the Holy Spirit, now and ever .” And another one from: A Sermon for Low Sunday by the unworthy monk Kirill in praise of the resurrection, and concerning the paschal bread, and concerning Thomas ’ s resting of the Lord ’ s ribs: “( 1 ) The Church requires a great teacher and a wise interpreter to adorn the feast.

Here he lived out his life as Eynsham ’ s first abbot, from 1005 until his death.

In 1279 in Buda ( Hungary ) Pope ’ s legate, bishop Philip confirmed the abbot ’ s right to take a special tax ( a tithe ) from Czudec and Strzyżów.

An important period in town ’ s history is due to the activity of Michał Kościesza Kosmowski, who was the monastery abbot ( 1761 – 1804 ).

The Castledillon Friars Stone, probably erected for a 15th century abbot of St Wolstan ’ s ( four miles to the east ), remained on the site until removed to the Visitor centre in Kildare town.

The monastery ’ s hegumen ( abbot ) was considered the first among the hegumens of all the Russian monasteries until 1561.