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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
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>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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