He remained abbot to the cenobites for some forty years.

Sharpe argues that there is no evidence that the paruchia overrode the diocese, or that the abbot replaced the bishop ; bishops still exercised ultimate spiritual authority and remained in charge of the diocesan clergy.

The abbey was probably sacked by the Danes around 890 and, despite Paris's claims, the office of abbot remained empty from around 920 until the 970s when the efforts of Dunstan reached the town.

Plumstead manor, together with the church of Plumstead and the chapel of Wickham annexed to it remained part of the possessions of the monastery until its final dissolution in 1539, the 30th year of the reign of Henry VIII, when the abbey and all its revenues were surrendered into the King's hands by the then abbot, John Essex and its thirty members.

He remained the abbot of Tashilhunpo Monastery until he died while meditating in 1474 at the age of 84 ( 83 by Western reckoning ).

The Lombard Paul the Deacon was brought to court in 782 and remained until 787, when Charles nominated him abbot of Montecassino.

The manor remained in possession of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was granted to Sir William Petre.

Chad remained abbot of Lastingham throughout his life, as well as heading the communities at both Lichfield and Barrow.

When Hilduin was disgraced in 830 for having joined the party of Lothair I, Hincmar accompanied him into exile at Corvey in Saxony, but returned with him to Saint-Denis when the abbot was reconciled with the emperor, and remained faithful to the emperor during his struggle with his sons.

Despite the abbey's affiliation with the Balliol family who remained resolutely at odds with the Bruce monarchy, the abbot and canons, before 21 October 1316, expelled two of their rank for refusing to acknowledge Robert as their king ; a grateful King Edward II of England rewarded them by providing them with the rent and fishery of the abbey at Berwick.

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.

This new branch, which remained under the jurisdiction of the abbot, was conspicuous for the primitive austerity of its observance, but never numbered more than eight houses.

He remained abbot there until 1984, the year he resigned his position after it was disclosed in the previous year that he and the wife of one of SFZC's benefactors had been having an ongoing affair.

It was originally the personal chapel for the Muscovite tsars, and its abbot remained a personal confessor of the Russian royal family until the early 20th century.

The diocese covered all of North Carolina except Belmont Abbey, which remained its own diocese under the abbot ’ s supervision.

He remained at Rome as French chargé d ' affaires, with the appointment in commendam of abbot of Trois-Fontaines to support him ( 1739 – 1753 ), until Benedict XIII, with whom he was on cordial terms of intimacy and very influential, consecrated him Archbishop of Embrun ( 26 June 1724 ).

Subiaco joined the Congregation of St. Justina, whose abbot-general was titular of St. Scholastica, while a cardinal remained commendatory abbot.

While most Benedictine monasteries remained autonomous and associated with each other only informally, Cluny created a large, federated order in which the administrators of subsidiary houses served as deputies of the abbot of Cluny and answered to him.

In 1531 his old patron, the abbot of Abingdon, presented him to the first of his many ecclesiastical benefices: the rectory of Kingston Bagpuize, Berkshire ; but he remained in France.

In 1074 Odo then granted by deed the remainder of the parish and also the right of the abbot to be " Chief Lord of the Fee ".

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.

In 1572, a conspiracy between Lord Phya Nakhon and the former abbot of Wat Maximavat, who held personal grudges against Setthathirath, led to the king's murder in the southern frontier of the country.

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

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.

In 1445 it was planted in near a site known as Mont Chenin in Touraine by the Lord of Chenonceaux and his brother in law, the abbot of Cormery.

Philip also had at least eighteen illegitimate children by various of his 24 documented mistresses, including: Corneille of Burgundy ( c. 1420-1452 ), captain-general / governor of Luxembourg., killed in the Battle of Basel ( 1452 ); Anthony, bastard of Burgundy, ( 1421-1504 ), lord of La Roche, Sainte-Menehould, Guînes, Lord of Crèvecoeur and Beveren ; David of Burgundy, ( c. 1427-1496 ), bishop of Therouanne and bishop of Utrecht, was a fine amateur artist, and the subject of a biography in 1529 ; Anne of Burgundy ( c. 1435-1508 ), governess of Mary of Burgundy, married Adrian of Borssele and later Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein ; Raphaël of Burgundy, also called Raphaël de Marcatellis, ( c. 1437-1508 ), abbot of the Saint-Bavo Abbey in Gent and the Saint-Peter Abbey in Oudenburg ; Baldwin of Burgundy ( c. 1446-1508 ), Lord of Fallais, Peer, Boudour, Sint-Annaland, Lovendegem, Zomergem en Fromont ; and Philip of Burgundy ( 1464-1524 ), Bishop of Utrecht.

In the medieval version the young people, who played the chief parts, chose from among their own number a mock pope, archbishop, bishop, or abbot to reign as Lord of Misrule.

Tommy has given the crystal to the abbot, K ’ anpo Rimpoche, who is an elderly Time Lord and the one-time hermit mentor of the Doctor.

The abbot's house, built of brick in 1483, survived as the " King's Manor " because it became the seat of the Council of the North in 1539 ; the abbots of St Mary's and the abbey featured in the medieval and early modern ballads of Robin Hood, with the abbot usually as Robin Hood's nemesis ).

Next after the abbot of St Alban's ranked the abbot of Westminster.

** Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster ( d. 1571 )

He also intervened at Bardney Abbey to depose the abbot, and put out Ralph de Arundel, abbot of Westminster.

In 1160 a new abbot of Westminster, Laurence, seized the opportunity to renew Edward's claim.

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 land now called Bayswater belonged to the Abbey of Westminster when the Domesday Book was compiled ; the most considerable tenant under the abbot was Bainiardus, probably the same Norman associate of the Conqueror who gave his name to Baynard's Castle.

Milo drew largely upon the Vita Herluini, composed by Gilbert Crispin, abbot of Westminster.

The manor of Langham was a property of Westminster Abbey, and he had become a monk in the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Westminster by 1346, and later prior and then abbot of this house.

John Feckenham ( c. 1515 – October, 1584 ), also known as John Howman of Feckingham and later John de Feckenham or John Fecknam, was an English churchman, the last abbot of Westminster.

In May 1556, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by the University of Oxford, and when the royal abbey of Westminster was revived, Feckenham was appointed abbot.

It was also recorded that the queen offered to let the abbot and his monks stay at Westminster if they conformed to the Church of England.

In 1276 it was recorded that " the church of St. Magnus the Martyr is worth £ 15 yearly and Master Geoffrey de la Wade now holds it by the grant of the prior of Bermundeseie and the abbot of Westminster to whom King Henry conferred the advowson by his charter.

Robert was involved in the conflict not only as a bishop-elect, but as an envoy to Becket from the pope, as he accompanied Philip of Aumone, a French abbot, who was sent by Alexander to Becket in after the Council of Westminster to urge Becket not to inflame the situation.

There is a reference to the king's " rolls " in a writ from 1110, which purports to be a grant from Henry I to the abbot of Westminster of ten shillings, but the writ may be a forgery, or parts of it may be genuine with some interpolations.

Gilbert Crispin ( 1055 ?- 1117 ) was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk, appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England.

* John Feckenham ( c. 1515 – 1584 ), canonised English ecclesiastic and last abbot of Westminster, was born at Feckenham.