At 11:40 AM 2/4/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>The full list of English Monastic cathedrals is:
>
>Canterbury, Winchester, Durham, Worcester, Bath, Rochester, Coventry,
>Norwich, Ely, Gloucester.
>
>Chester and Peterborough were Abbeys that became cathedrals at the
>reformation.
Also Gloucester.
Oxford cathedral, also the chapel of Christchurch College, is the former St
Friedwide's, a monastic house.
Tom Izbicki
>The English Abbeys whose Abbacy still exists in titular form include:
>
>Abingdon, Athelney, St Alban's*, Canterbury (St Augustine's), Shrewsbury,
>Westminster, Glastonbury, Battle, York (ST Mary's), St Edmondsbury*,
>Evesham, Dunfermline, Tewkesbury, Tavistock, Lindisfarne, Iona, Whitby &
>Sherbourne. (Those with a * became Anglican cathedrals in the past 150 years.
>
>When the English and Welsh hierarchy was re-established in 1850, the
>bishop of Newport & Menevia (who was a Benedictine)was given Belmont
>Priory (now Abbey) as his cathedral with a monastic chapter; this
>continued until reorganisation of the hierarchy in 1920.
>
>John Canning
>
>-----Original Message-----
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> << File: ATT00006.html >> Thanks for this information. It raises more
> questions. Are you saying the
>monks supplemented the canons in terms of administration of the cathedral,
>or kept to their cloisters? :)
>
>LR
>
>
>At 10:56 PM 2/3/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >About half the English pre reformation cathedrals had Benedictine
> >monasteries as their chapter. The titular abbot was the bishop but the
> >prior ruled the community. Canterbury, Durham Ely Worcester and
> >others - I forget which - were included.
> >
> >The English Benedictines still have the use (granted by the Pope) of the
> >title of cathedral prior for senior monks, not only of these abbeys but
> >also of Chester and Peterborough which became cathedrals after the
> suppression.
> >
> >There is at least some contact between the current monks and their
> >cathedral (E.g. Ampleforth Fr Dominic, Titular Cathedral Prior of Chester,
> >and Chester Cathedral with annual evensong in the abbey and vespers in
> >the cathedral.
> >
> >The EBC also have the use of Titular Abbacies e.g. Westminster, Whitby,
> >
> >John Canning
> >
> >
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Marjorie Greene [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> >Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 10:50 PM
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> >Subject: monastic cathedrals
> >
> >I was not aware there was such as a monastic
> >cathedral. Could my learned colleagues please give me
> >just a few examples of where and when? "Monastic
> >cathedral," up till now, was what I'd have called an
> >oxymoron.
> >Thanks!
> >MG
> >
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