When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

When the abbot condescended to dine in the refectory, his chaplains waited upon him with the dishes, a servant, if necessary, assisting them.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

When Bede was about 17 years old, Adomnan, the abbot of Iona Abbey, visited Monkwearmouth and Jarrow.

" When the Frankish bishops still insisted the abbot was wrong in obedience to St. Patrick's canon, he laid the question before the Pope St. Gregory I.

When the abbot declined Hildegard's proposition, Hildegard went over his head and received the approval of Archbishop Henry I of Mainz.

When Otto II became Holy Roman Emperor in 973 ( he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967 ), he appointed Gerbert the abbot of the monastery of Bobbio and also appointed him as count of the district, but the abbey had been ruined by previous abbots, and Gerbert soon returned to Rheims.

When the abbot complained to the Confederates about the damages and demanded full compensation, Varnbüler responded with a counter suit and in cooperation with Schwendiner rejected the arbitration efforts of the non-partisan Confederates.

When Máeldub died, Aldhelm was appointed in 675, according to a charter of doubtful authenticity cited by William of Malmesbury, by Leuthere, Bishop of Winchester ( 671 – 676 ), to succeed to the direction of the monastery, of which he became the first abbot.

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.

When the previous abbot of St Augustine's died in 1151, the prior, Silvester, paid the king for the right to administer the abbey and to hold a free election for a new abbot.

When he is not vested for worship, a bishop, archimandrite or abbot uses a different type of staff in the form of a walking stick topped with a silver pommel.

When ordered to produce the foundation charter of his abbey the abbot refused, apparently because that document would be fatal to his case, and instead played a winning card.

When the abbot of St. Gallen proposed to build a " Catholic " road from Schwyz to Austria that would cut off the Protestant part of Glarus from its support in Zurich, the Protestant cantons declared war on the Abbot.

When an abbot changed position, becoming abbot of another temple, he also had to discard his lineage and adopt the lineage of his new temple.

When asked by a Crusader how to tell Catholics from Cathars once they had taken the city, the abbot supposedly replied, " Kill them all, God will know His own "-" Neca eos omnes.

When Moriyoshi was 18, Go-Daigo had him named the head abbot of the Enryakuji temple on Mount Hiei.

When he fell from favour, the land was supposedly given to St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, whose abbot failed to maintain the sea walls, leading to the island's destruction, some say, in the storm of 1099 mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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.

When the supervision of monasteries passed to another episcopal official — the Great Sakellarios (" sacristan ") — the title of archimandrite became an honorary one for abbots of important monasteries ( compared to an ordinary abbot, a hegumenos ).

When Gervin, abbot of Saint-Riquier, who was visiting the English court, rejected her kiss of greeting, she took offence.

* Rassaphore — When the abbess deems the novice ready, the novice is asked to join the monastery.

When she was about six years old, Matilda of Scotland ( or Edith as she was then probably still called ) and her sister Mary were sent to Romsey Abbey, near Southampton, where their aunt Cristina was abbess.

When Robin casually inquires about Maid Marian ( Hepburn ), they tell him she has become an abbess.

When the defendant deems that the punishment that would, concretely, be handed down is less than five-year imprisonment ( or that it would just be a fine ), the defendant may plea bargain with the prosecutor.

When the deity deems a worshiper to be most worthy, a special ceremony is held in which the Black Goat of the Woods swallows the initiate and then regurgitates the cultist as a transformed satyr-like being.

When Angel tried to take Dana back to Wolfram & Hart, Andrew asserts his authority, standing up to Angel ( one of the few who do ) and explains that she belongs with them, not him, also revealing that the Scooby Gang no longer deems the Angel Investigations team trustworthy due to their association with Wolfram & Hart, Buffy herself having ordered Andrew not to leave Dana with Angel.

When Roman Catholics ( and some Protestants ) convert to Orthodoxy, they are often admitted by Chrismation, without baptism ; but, since this is a matter of local episcopal discretion, a bishop may require all converts to be admitted by baptism if he deems it necessary.

When Stan's doppelganger deems Stanley material for Planet Fire based on the poor decisions he made over the course of his life, Prince is able to control where and when Stanley reincarnates on the surface of Fire.

When she brings the proof and prediction to Nolan, he deems it too risky to evacuate the entirety of San Francisco.

When the consensus of the observers deems an object sufficiently unique it becomes a collectors item.

When Divatox deems the pair inadequate as sacrifices, they are thrown below deck on the Subcraft.

When he deems it necessary, he also mentions the views of other Rishonim ( early, pre-1550 authorities ), and especially Acharonim ( later authorities ), occasionally disagreeing with the latter.

When Billy arrives, he deems it necessary to cut a hole in the horse's windpipe so he can breathe.

* Novice — When one enters a monastery the first three to five years are spent as a novice.

When Suzuki turned 13, on May 18, 1917, So-on ordained him as a novice monk ( unsui ).

When he debuted with the song " Ain't No Sunshine " he refused to resign his job because of his belief that the music business was a fickle industry and that he was still a novice compared to other acts.

When new students came to work with Washoe, she would slow down her rate of signing for novice speakers of sign language, which had a humbling effect on many of them.

: When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery —

When Lister woke up the next day, he had enrolled as a novice monk in a Ganymedian monastery.

When they dissolved their relationship he was free to pursue the property, for which Saltzman, a novice to film production had taken a gamble to acquire.

When she was a small child, the Beklan army captured and emancipated the farm, but a wounded soldier brought Melathys with him to Quiso and offered her as a novice to the priestesses of Shardik, hoping that the Tuginda could heal his battle injuries.

When the head monk at Shōin-ji took ill, Hakuin was sent to a neighboring temple, Daisho-ji, where he served as a novice for three or four years, studying Buddhist texts.

When Richard tells them that their high priest is dead, they tell him that Drefan was barely a novice in healing, let alone a high priest.

When a novice is raised to the Accepted, it is after completing a trial in a ter ' angreal deep in the lower levels of the White Tower.

When the novice walks through the first arch she is faced with a fear from her past, one she must conquer to return back through the arch.

When the above was administered the Priest then uttered the words of acceptance of the novice as a new member:

When his elder brother, Prince Brahmavarānurakṣa, ordained as a novice, Vajirañana was allowed to live with him in Wat Pavaraniveśa for some while.

When the novice had finished praying, the angel placed the crown upon him.

When the girl's parents put her away in the Visitandines convent in Avignon, d ' Aubigny followed, entering the convent as a novice.

When well ochred ( milte ) all over the novice is led away by another native, apart from the rest of the tribe, or if there are more than one, they stand together linked hand in hand, and when tired sit down upon bunches of green boughs brought for that purpose, for they are neither allowed to sit on the ground, nor to have any clothing on ; and when they move about they always carry a bunch of green boughs in each hand.