Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The head of a congregation of monasteries.
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After twelve years of zealous labour, the most worthy monument of which was the purchase of the cradle of the Order, Cîteaux, and making it again the mother-house, he passed to his reward, and was succeeded as abbot-general by Mgr Augustin Marre, then Abbot of Igny
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Vicar-General of the Ancient Reform, was elected first abbot-general.
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Dom Sebastian Wyart, was elected first abbot-general, and, a little later, Abbot of Cîteaux.
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The first part regards the government of the order; the supreme power residing in the general chapter, which is composed of all the abbots (actually in office), titular priors and superiors of houses, and meets each year under the presidency of the abbot-general, who is elected by themselves for life.
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Florence, where the abbot-general resides; Sta Prassede, in Rome;
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Benedictine monasteries in Germany, which in the beginning of the thirteenth century were combined into one congregation whose abbot-general was the Abbot of the monastery of St. James at
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Innocent III in 1215, with the Abbot of St. Jacob at Ratisbon as abbot-general.
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By the middle of the seventeenth century the abbot-general of the congregation had under his jurisdiction more than one hundred abbeys and priories.
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Feb., 1905, to the monastery of São Bento, at Rio de Janeiro; made titular Bishop of Phocea, 13 Dec., 1907; and elected abbot-general of the Brazilian congregation, 6 Sept.,
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During the time the general chapter is not in session the order is directed, in urgent cases, by the abbot-general with the assistance of a council composed of five definitors, also elected by the general chapter, but for a term of five years.
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