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"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

Caldey Abbey commissioned the report, and its new abbot apologised for the pain and suffering caused.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024

And at the closing ceremony, Yeo-am, the temple’s abbot, offered some parting words of wisdom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

"Every letter written,” said a medieval abbot, "is a wound inflicted on the devil.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The number of temples has tripled, monks and abbots have become well-known public figures, and China has used the faith to build ties around the world, sending nuns and monks on goodwill missions.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2018

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

Among the 10,000 killed were King James IV, 12 earls, 13 barons, five heirs to titles, three bishops and two abbots.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2013

In these prickly missives, Burns vamps and camps merrily, elsewhere referring to homosexual figures in whimsical religious terms, as abbots and abbesses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2013

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