Sentences with abbots

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I saw Roshi only at meals, which, unlike most abbots, he took with the monks.
The council was attended by 500 bishops, 70 abbots and over 1,000 other clergy.
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.
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.
Some chief monks - abbots - were hanged but this was a rarity.
But the feudal system also allowed for Church functionaries, for instance the abbots of powerful monarchies, to adopt something of a baronial role.
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.
Henry I was clearly not as impressed by Benedictine abbots and their temporal grandeur as his father had been.

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