medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
> religion and culture
>
> On Wednesday, January 21, 2009, at 8:36 am, John Briggs
> wrote:
>
> > What's an Archabbey?
>
> Within the Benedictine Confederation, an archabbey is the
> head abbey of one of the Confederation's constituent
> congregations. It seems now to be an honorific as the
> Abbots President (a.k.a. Superiors) of a congregation may
> reside in any of its abbeys. For a list of the
> twenty-one individual congregations with links to their
> websites, see: http://www.osb.org/intl/confed/confed.html
This seems to be a German and/or Post-medieval usage. The Benedictine Order
didn't exist, of course - it probably still doesn't. National or Provincial
congregations were only introduced by Lateran IV in 1215. Canterbury
Province seems to have been first off the mark, and it elected two Abbots
President in 1218. An English Congregation was formed in 1338. But there
were never "head abbeys" in Britain.
John Briggs
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