abbot
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Shi took office there as abbot in 1999, soon earning the nickname "CEO monk" for transforming the institution into a global brand.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
"People are facing many economic hardships," said the abbot, U Thudassa.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
“I am looking forward to the silence finally stopping, because 54 years of silence is a long time,” said Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, the abbot of the seminary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
And at the closing ceremony, Yeo-am, the temple’s abbot, offered some parting words of wisdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
He began to reach for it, but the abbot, who was watching William carefully, stopped him.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
State media puts out a continuous stream of reports showing the diminutive dictator lavishing gifts on temples, and as a pallbearer at the funerals of senior abbots.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
“Not many abbots built castles as well as monasteries.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2022
Splattered across the lands of central Europe are countless territories overseen by an emperor who shared power with a hierarchy spanning princes, bishops and dukes, down to abbots, knights and city councils.
From Economist ● Apr. 14, 2016
It also provides name checks for the successive abbots who oversaw the commission: Jerome and Benedetto.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2015
In the month of October 1150,203 Frederick held at Roncaille, between Parma and Placentia, an assembly, in which the bishops and abbots acknowledged that they held from him their royal privileges.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
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