单词 | abbot-bishop |
释义 | > as lemmasabbot-bishop abbot-bishop n. now historical an abbot who is a bishop. ΚΠ 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xviii. f.131v At this Synode there was present..a most reuerend man..whiche was come of late from Rome by the commaundement of Pope Agatho, hauing for his guyde the most reuerend Abbot Bishop surnamed Benedict. 1845 W. G. Todd Hist. Anc. Church in Ireland iv. 34 Of the many bishoprics that were founded about this period, a large proportion owed their origin to these abbot-bishops, who, first collecting around them a society of monks, afterwards undertook the spiritual government of the adjacent districts. 1878 G. F. Maclear Celts (1879) v. 88 They planted monasteries under abbot-bishops. 1911 H. N. Birt Benedictine Pioneers in Austral. II. vii. 484 The Abbot-Bishop was throughout the life of the settlement, its father and oracle. 1980 Jrnl. Libr. Hist. 15 2 Donations were made to the saint, Emmeram, and to the earthly embodiment of church authority, the abbot-bishop. 2009 P. F. State Brief Hist. Ireland ii. 36 By this time, Armagh was not a monastic church, the chief cleric no longer an abbot-bishop, but now exclusively a bishop who claimed jurisdiction over many surrounding churches. < as lemmas |
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