Who's an abbot in the Catholic Church

Who’s an abbot in the Catholic Church

The word Abbot is a title given to a male superior (leader) of a monastic community or order. It’s derived from Aramaic word ab (“father”), or aba (“my father”). In the Septuagint, it was written as “abbas”. The feminine equivalent of the word is Abbess. The word Abbot was earlier used to address any monk, but it was later […]

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