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Abbot
Religious title / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the term's use in Christianity. For the term's use in Buddhism, see Abbot (Buddhism). For other uses, see Abbot (disambiguation).
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from abba, the Syriac form of the Hebrew ab, and means "father".[1] The female equivalent is abbess.
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