Religion - Clergy - Abbot, Archdeacon, Archimandrite, Archpriest, Auxiliary Bishop, Axios, Bishop, Cantor, Chorepiscopos, Clergy Awards, Consecration of a Bishop, Deposition, Doorkeeper, Economos, Elder, Exorcist, Frank Pavone, Hierodeacon, Hieromonk, Holy (Paperback)

This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 50. Chapters: Abbot, Archdeacon, Archimandrite, Archpriest, Auxiliary bishop, Axios, Bishop, Cantor, Chorepiscopos, Clergy awards, Consecration of a bishop, Deposition, Doorkeeper, Economos, Elder, Exorcist, Frank Pavone, Hierodeacon, Hieromonk, Holy Orders, Lampadarius, Major orders, Martin Niemoeller, Metropolitan, Metropolitan bishop, Minor orders, Monk, Pope, Presbyter, Priest, Primate, Proistamenos, Protodeacon, Protosyngellos, Reader, Stephen Black, Subdeacon, Titular bishop, Vicar. Excerpt: The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery. The female equivalent is Abbess. The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery. At first it was employed as a respectful title for any monk, but it was soon restricted by canon law to certain priestly superiors. At times it was applied to various priests, e.g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus ('of the palace') and Abbas castrensis ('of the camp') were chaplains to the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns' court and army respectively. The title "abbot" came into fairly general use in western monastic orders whose members include priests. An abbot (from the Hebrew ab, "a father," through the Syriac abba, Latin abbas (genitive form, abbatis), Old English abbad; German Abt; French abbe) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumenos or archimandrite. The English version for a female monastic head is abbess. In Egypt, the first home of monasticism, the jurisdiction of the abbot, or archimandrite, was but loosely defined. Sometimes he ruled over only one community, someti...