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Meaning of "abbacy"
abbacy (noun): The office or tenure of an abbot or abbess. It can also refer to the monastery or abbey over which an abbot presides
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- The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.
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He would spend much of his abbacy there also.
In the first days of his abbacy went nowhere unless accompanied by armed knights.
Entry of Feidlimid into the abbacy of Corcach.
It was during his abbacy that Cluny became the most important monastery in western Europe.
However, he seems to have voluntarily given up his claim to the abbacy.
The abbey itself is a territorial abbacy and not part of any diocese.
Abbacy of Neresheim.
After them the county and the abbacy were usually held together.
Abbacy of Fulda.
Robert the lay abbacy of Marmoutier.
Abbacy of Werden.
Promoted to the abbacy of Rievaulx.
Abbacy of Quedlinburg.
The reinterring took place under Questenberg 's abbacy.
Abbacy of Zwiefalten.
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An incident involving the monastery of Fleury and Cluny occurred in Majolus ' abbacy.
Abbacy of Prüm.
However, Richard Sharpe argues that he probably came to Iona during the abbacy of Ségéne d.
Abbacy of Pruem.
The abbey had been in decline for some time before Sophie Elisabeth's abbacy.
Abbacy of Prum.
Darlugdach succeeded St. Brigit in the abbacy of Kildare.
Abbacy of Disentis.
According to Boniface, the famous Vision of the Monk of Wenlock occurred during Milburga 's abbacy.
Abbacy of Petershausen.
Whatever his origin, Diarmait 's abbacy was a troublesome one.
Abbacy of Malmédy.
Reconstruction began at the end of the 17th century, during the abbacy of Jean Penillon.
Abbacy of Malmedy.
To return, however, to the abbacy of Roger Norreys.
Abbacy of Stavelot.
In 1982 it regained former territory from the suppressed Territorial Abbacy of New Norcia.
The abbacy was then given to Cétfaid, fosterson of Riata.
Norreis was deposed from the abbacy by the papal legate in 1213.
A Protestant abbacy was re-established in 1651, with the seminary reopening five years later.
Upon Daoxin 's death . at the age of seventy-two, Hongren assumed the abbacy.
In 1148 he was elected to the abbacy of Melrose, a daughter house of Rievaulx.
The Counts of Ostein were compensated with the secularised Abbacy of Buchau in 1803.
During his abbacy the replacement abbey church of Cluny ( Cluny II ) was consecrated in 981.
In 1926 it was established as the Territorial Abbacy of Montevergine.
A new church was begun under the abbacy of Gunther of Le Mans, appointed in 1085.
Rodrigo Borgia later the infamous Alexander VI held the commendatory abbacy in 1467.
In 1637, Jacques Le Veneur resigned his abbacy to devote himself entirely to Carrouges.
Bordered by, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Abbacy of Zwiefalten, Austria, Abbacy of Buchau, and others.
