what is abbot

abbot 

oun: abbot; plural thing: abbots
a man who is the leader of an abbey of priests.
Starting point
Early English abbod, from clerical Latin abbas, abbat-, from Greek abbas 'father', from Aramaic 'abba (see Abba). Abbot implies father or male head of monastery in different customs like christianity.he is equal is abbess .it is out originated from the religious communities of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean,and all dialects when acknowledged it the leader of a monastery.this word out originate from Aramaic it implies father
or on the other hand Abba meaning my dad basically it is composed as abbas .now and again it was connected to different clerics like cort of Frankish government the abbas palatinus and abbas castrensis .

Arrangements 

At the point when an opportunity happened, the religious administrator of the bishopric picked the abbot out of the priests of the cloister, yet the privilege of race was exchanged by purview to the priests themselves, holding to the priest the affirmation of the decision and the invocation of the new abbot. In abbeys absolved from the (arch)bishop's diocesan ward, the affirmation and invocation must be given by the pope face to face, the house being saddled with the costs of the new abbot's adventure to Rome. It was essential that an abbot ought to be no less than 30 years old, of authentic birth, a priest of the house for no less than 10 years,unless it outfitted no appropriate hopeful, when a freedom was permitted of choosing from another religious circle, all around educated himself, and ready to teach others, one likewise who had figured out how to direction by having drilled submission. In some remarkable cases an abbot was permitted to name his own successor. Cassian talks about an abbot in Egypt doing this; and in later occasions we have another model on account of St Bruno. Popes and sovereigns bit by bit infringed on the privileges of the priests, until in Italy the pope had usurped the designation everything being equal, and the lord in France, except for Cluny, Premontré and different houses, head of their request. The decision was forever, except if the abbot was standardly denied by the head of his request, or when he was specifically subject to them, by the pope or the religious administrator, and furthermore in England it was for a term of 8– 12 years.

The function of the formal affirmation of a Benedictine abbot in medieval occasions is in this manner recommended by the consuetudinary of Abingdon. The recently chose abbot was to put off his shoes at the entryway of the congregation, and continue shoeless to meet the individuals from the house progressing in a parade. In the wake of continuing up the nave, he was to stoop and ask at the highest advance of the passage of the choir, into which he was to be presented by the cleric or his grocery store, and set in his slow down. The priests, at that point stooping, gave him the kiss of tranquility on the hand, and ascending, on the mouth, the abbot holding his staff of office. He at that point put on his shoes in the vestry, and a section was held, and the religious administrator or his agent lectured a reasonable message

Places of duty in a religious community 

Priests who showed their capacity inside a cloister were given places of duty to guarantee that the religious community itself ran easily. Such positions were made with the goal that different parts of a religious community worked to the best effectiveness –, for example, in the kitchens, the visitor house, the hospital and so on.

Abbot: man drove the priests in a religious community. An abbot was viewed as a man of incredible taking in, a great model to the priests and a man of extraordinary blessedness.
Almoner: a priest who took care of the poor when they visited the almonry. Customarily, an almoner and the priests who helped him would wash the feet of poor people who were at the almonry each Thursday.
Cellarer: a priest who was accountable for a prepare house and the mix house.
Chamberlain: a priest who cared for the everyday basics of the priests – clean sheet material; boiling water for washing and shaving; keeping the washing zone clean; guaranteeing that propensities were well continued; keeping the group clean and so on.

Hosteller: a priest who cared for guests to the guesthouse.
Infirmarian: a priest who was placed accountable for the hospital.
Kitchener: a priest who was responsible for the kitchen; the cellarer was accountable for him.
Precentor: a priest who was responsible for the composition inside a religious community.
Sacrist: a priest who was accused of taking care of a cloister's fortune when it was in plain view to people in general. A sacrist would sit in a watching chamber and watch out for the individuals who were visiting the religious community.
The individuals who exceeded expectations in the work that they did established sound frameworks to succeed an abbot when that abbot passed on.