Though the title " abbot " is not given in the Western Church to any but actual abbots of monasteries today, the title archimandrite is given to " monastics " ( i. e., celibate ) priests in the East, even when not attached to a monastery, as an honor for service, similar to the title of monsignor in the Western / Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

# The Old Testament, in which a line of kings was created by God through the prophecy of Jacob / Israel, who created his son Judah to be king and retain the sceptre until the coming of the Messiah, alongside the line of priests created in his other son, Levi.

Though present and allowed to speak before the council, members of the Imperial Roman / Byzantine court, abbots, priests, monks and laymen were not allowed to vote.

In medieval Christianity, Noah's three sons were generally considered as the founders of the populations of the three known continents, Japheth / Europe, Shem / Asia, and Ham / Africa, although a rarer variation held that they represented the three classes of medieval society – the priests ( Shem ), the warriors ( Japheth ), and the peasants ( Ham ).

* Human Rights Voice, published by the Sudan Human Rights Organization, Volume I, Issue 3, July / August 1992 forcible closure of churches, expulsion of priests, forced displacement of populations, forced Islamisation and Arabisation, and other repressive measures of the Government.

The year is stated as the ninth year of Ptolemy V's reign ( equated with 197 / 196 BC ), and it is confirmed by naming four priests who officiated in that same year: Aëtus son of Aëtus was priest of the divine cults of Alexander the Great and the five Ptolemies down to Ptolemy V himself ; his three colleagues, named in turn in the inscription, led the worship of Berenice Euergetis ( wife of Ptolemy III ), Arsinoe Philadelpha ( wife and sister of Ptolemy II ) and Arsinoe Philopator, mother of Ptolemy V. However, a second date is also given in the Greek and hieroglyphic texts, corresponding to, the official anniversary of Ptolemy's coronation.

According to the Mitzvot only Aaronic priests and / or Levites ( depending on the Mitzvah ) were permitted to perform these actions, and simply being a nazarite or prophet was insufficient.

Shakespeare made the reference to priests because the religious use of equivocation was well known in those periods of early modern England ( e. g. under James VI / I ) when it was a capital offence for a Roman Catholic priest to enter England.

However, in 300 BC / 299 BC the lex Ogulnia opened the office of Pontifex Maximus to public election and permitted the plebs ( plebeians ) to be co-opted as priests, so that part of the exclusivity of the title was lost.

The knot may have been a religious knot-cipher guarded by Gordian / Midas's priests and priestesses.

Due to doubts concerning the status of persons claiming to be Kohanim or Levi ' im arising after severe Roman / Christian persecutions and exile, the Hebrew Bible tithe of 10 % for the Levites, and " tithe of the tithe " ( Nehemiah 10: 38 ) of 10 % of 10 % ( 1 %) for the priests are dealt with in accordance with Jewish Law.

This cellar was apparently used to hide priests fleeing persecution and the public house has now been refurbished as bistro / bar and renamed ' The Saw ').

It may have been a body of sages and / or priests, or a political, legislative and judicial institution.

In 1665 / 66, her fortune telling was questioned by the priests of Saint Vincent de Paul's order, the Congregation of the Mission, but La Voisin defended herself successfully before the professors at the Sorbonne.

After the 1989 Romanian Revolution, the Church never admitted of willingly collaborating with the régime, but several Romanian Orthodox priests have admitted publicly after 1989 that they have collaborated with and / or were informers for the Securitate, the Romanian Communist secret police.

In addition to this, the Bamana maintained internal castes, like other Mandé peoples, with Griot historian / praise-singers, priests, metalworkers, and other specialist vocations remaining endogamous and living in designated areas.

Because of his / her close association with kitsune, Inari is often believed to be a fox ; though this belief is widespread, both Shinto and Buddhist priests discourage it.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Subsequently, ninety percent of Buddhist monks / clerics married.

Celibacy not only for religious and monastics ( brothers / monks and sisters / nuns ) but also for bishops is upheld by the Catholic Church traditions.

( The Pali / Sanskrit term for monks and nuns means " one who seeks alms ".

The contents of these Islamic libraries were copied by Christian monks in Muslim / Christian border areas, particularly Spain and Sicily.

As preserved in the ancient Sarvastivada school's Sutra on Mindfulness of the Body in the Madhayama agama ( equivalent of Pali Kayagatasati ) it states that monks and nuns under practice should be ' Understanding ( having awareness in ) the four postures and states of being asleep and / or awake '.

* The monastery and monks of Lindisfarne are an important part of British author / broadcastor Melvyn Bragg's epic, historically based novel " Credo " published in 1996.

The American Indian four winds teachings may also have Christian cross teachings linked to Nestorian Missons or visitors to North America, as well as Irish Church monks and / or a Polish / Dane Colony before Columbus in the present location of the Maritimes of Canada and Northeastern U. S. Source: National Christian Association: nationalchristianassociation. bravehost. com

The monks often put forward candidates for Archbishop of Canterbury, either from among their number or outside, since the archbishop was nominally their abbot, but this could lead to clashes with the king and / or pope should they put forward a different man — examples are the elections of Baldwin of Forde and Thomas Cobham.

Some monks avoid ( or limit ) medicine and / or hospitalization out of disregard for the physical body.

Following the founding of the Bayou Sara settlement by Franciscan / Cappucin monks in the late 17th century, the area was explored further by Spain, France, and England.

* monastic made up of monks ( who may be clerics ) and / or nuns who are bound to live and work at their monastery and recite the Office in common

Another form of shirk mentioned in the Qur ' an is to take scholars of religion, monks, divines or religious lawyers as Lord /( s ) in practice by following their doctrines, and / or by following their rulings on what is lawful when it is at variance to the law or doctrines prescribed by God's revelation.

It divides into two parts: the church and the former living / working areas of the monks.

Other Buddhist monks / scholars disagree with this claim.

Prior to this, those wishing to become monks / nuns were ordained using the

They receive the vows of the nuns of the abbey ; they may admit candidates to their order's novitiate ; they may send them to study ; and they may send them to do pastoral and / or missionary work and / or assist — to the extent allowed by canon and civil law — in the administration and ministry of a parish or diocese ( these activities could be inside or outside the community's territory ).

As in most of the orders dating to medieval times, the First Order is the friars ( who are active / contemplative ), the Second Order is the nuns ( who are cloistered ) and the Third Order consists of laypeople who continue to live in the world, and can be married, but participate in the charism of the order by liturgical prayers, apostolates, and contemplative prayer.

There were too many monks and nuns, a large percentage of whom were only in the sangha as a means of escaping taxation and / or government service.

Celibacy for religious and monastics ( monks and sisters / nuns ) and for bishops is upheld by both the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Christian traditions.

" Sweet Agnès, more honor you deserve / the cause being to recover France / than what can be rendered inside a cloister of nuns or to a devoted hermit.

In the first year of Henry IV Chicheley was parson of Sherston, Wiltshire, and prebendary of Nantgwyly in the college of Abergwilly, Wales ; on 23 February 1401 / 2, now called doctor of laws, he was pardoned for bringing in, and allowed to use, a bull of the pope providing to him the chancellorship of Salisbury Cathedral, and canonries in the nuns ' churches of Shaftesbury and Wilton in that diocese ; and on 9 January 1402 / 3 he was archdeacon of Salisbury.

Based on both the novel and film versions of Lilies of the Field, it tells the story of a group of German nuns, headed by a determined, dauntless Mother Superior, who manage to get an African American itinerant handyman / jack-of-all-trades named Homer Smith to build a chapel for the New Mexico community in which they live, despite not having money to pay him.

Born in Devon, England, Wealdburg / Walpurga had been educated by the nuns of Wimborne Abbey, Dorset, where she spent twenty-six years as a member of the community.

In comparison, schoolteachers and truck drivers were getting about 7 /-, female chefs 5 /- and nuns teaching in Catholic schools 1 / 6 an hour.

Since the 6th century, monks and nuns following the Rule of Saint Benedict have been making the so-called Benedictine vow at their public profession of obedience ( placing oneself under the direction of the abbot / abbess or prior / prioress ), stability ( committing oneself to a particular monastery ), and " conversion of manners " ( which includes forgoing private ownership and celibate chastity ).