abbot
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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
Police said the case first came to their attention in mid-June, when they learned that an abbot in Bangkok had suddenly left the monkhood after being extorted by a woman.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
When the abbot began taking questions, Seong-hun raised his hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Don’t put your life in the hands of an abbot you’ve never met.
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
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
This is true of Hollandus, of Arnold of Villanova, of Basil Valentine, and finally of the many abbots and bishops to whom Paracelsus in his time acknowledged his obligations for aid in his chemical studies.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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