No, he wouldn't
See P.A.Allanson, Biography of the English Benedictines, 1999 [ St Laurence
Papers IV, ISBN 09518 17345 ] Introduction p.ii (note 4):
'They (sc. the English Benedictines) again solemnly protest, they desire
nothing sould be restored but their reputation, and be thought by the
country-men neither pernicious nor useless members to their country'. (From
a sermon preached before the King (James II) by Bishop Philip Ellis OSB on 1
November 1686.)
The office referred to is currently vacant
Anselm Cramer OSB
Monastery Librarian
Ampleforth Abbey, York
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 31 July 1999 11:00
Subject: Re: Bishops, titular
>In rather the same way, the Benedictines have titular abbots of the
>monasteries suppressed at the reformation. There is, for example, a
titular
>Abbot of Westminster, who would be very happy to have his rightful property
>back when Her Majesty has finished with it.
>
>Oriens.
>
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