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How to use abbots in a sentence

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Thus at the first Council of Constantinople, AD 448, 23 archimandrites or abbots sign, with 30 bishops.
A staff is also granted to archimandrites and abbots, as they are the heads of monasteries.
By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
As elsewhere in Europe, great bishops or abbots often belonged to royal or aristocratic families.
The council was attended by 500 bishops, 70 abbots and over 1,000 other clergy.
I saw Roshi only at meals, which, unlike most abbots, he took with the monks.
In addition, the land which the monasteries owned in the name of the Church, led bishops and abbots to have distinct political power as well.
Henry I was clearly not as impressed by Benedictine abbots and their temporal grandeur as his father had been.
Ever since the Concordat of 1516 between Francis I and Pope Leo X the king had appointed all bishops and the abbots of greater monasteries.
Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.
Most of the early medieval saints were bishops, abbots, and abbesses with an impeccable social pedigree.
Norman abbots energetically fought off the encroachments on the wealth and patrimony of the houses on which the abbots' own fates depended.
The removal of abbots from the upper house of Parliament after the Reformation left that chamber dominated by secular lords.
Until the Reformation, the spiritual peerage also included abbots and priors, and spiritual peers formed a majority of the House of Lords.
The abbots improved the breed of cattle in line with the climate and cheese production.
Inscribed with the names of the abbots Daniel and Pachomios, the epistyle is carved with vegetal and pseudo-kufic ornament common to such architectural dividers.
At the very least, says Mr Oo, it can be assumed that the protesting monks have the blessing of the abbots in charge of the monasteries.
Abbot Richard introduced this suggested text very helpfully and clearly, and there was time for the abbots to ask questions.
Nevertheless until the Revolution, the abbots of Saint Pée will be regarded as Co-lords of Montaut and, for this reason, will perceive one dîme.
Also at this time, the Church was under attack by popular preachers amid an undercurrent of anticlericalism aimed against the corruption of the priests and abbots.
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All these old abbots and bishops used to write most beautifully, with such taste and so much care and diligence.
I say, we fought under the poplars, both Abbots and all the monks, and one laid open my forehead to the bone.
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