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How to use abbacy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word abbacy? Here are some examples.

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During his abbacy, he kept the Buckfast community abreast of changes in the outside world.
Under the abbacy of St Ailred, it flourished, becoming the largest Cistercian community in England.
Recalled by the emperor Michael II, who nevertheless favoured the iconoclastic party, Theodore was not allowed to resume his abbacy.
In 1693 Saint-Pierre gained a footing at court as almoner to the Duchess d'Orléans, who presented him with the abbacy of Tiron, a comfortable benefice.
Something has to be said about the genesis of his »political« works in the meeting between the exigencies of his abbacy on the one hand and the authoritative expérience collected in the library of his monastery on the other.
The two closest ones to the facade are rather larger than the others because they're the outcome of the widening completed in 1026 during the abbacy of St. Guido.
After Mazarin's death in 1661, Retz returned to France and in February 1662 agreed to resign the archbishopric of Paris in return for the abbacy of Saint-Denis and a substantial income.
Old abbacy on the edge of an historic village with amenities.
Examples from Classical Literature
Commendatar, Commendator, who enjoys the rents of an abbacy or other Benefice.
Robert Ramsey succeeded to the abbacy in 1346, but of him nothing particular is recorded.
When Malachy secured possession of the see he remained long enough in Armagh to establish himself in the abbacy.
He had a grant of the abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, when only seven years of age.
King Edgar in 968 restored it, and appointed Sydemann to the abbacy, as it then became.
He refused the archbishopric of Naples and the abbacy of Monte Cassino.
Falling into disgrace at court, he was banished to the abbacy of Bonport.
Turgeis himself is reported to have usurped the abbacy of Armagh.
This has been forced upon us by the fact that our community has diminished greatly during the seven years of my abbacy.
I think that this was referring to the court before Jokyu, but at the time I heard that he had already resigned the abbacy.
During her abbacy, she treated the convent as her personal fief, clearly distancing herself from the other sisters by exempting herself from the order's rules.
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