Skip to content
Jean-Baptiste Anthony  · Public domain

Office Christianity

abbot

abbas la

Religious title, superior of a community of monks, often an abbey

A seat,
and those
who held it.

Holders in order

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Succession in office

Everyone recorded as holding it

Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.

  • 142 holders
  • 76 overlapping pairs
  • 107 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. until 1479 CE Francesco Gonzaga (1444-1483) Cardinal of the Catholic Church, Bishop of Brixen and Apostolic Administrator of Mantua and Bologna
  2. 675 CE – 705 CE Aldhelm abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet Recognised by Malmesbury Abbey Has references
  3. 679 CE – 704 CE Adomnán hagiographer, statesman, clerical lawyer
  4. 794 CE – 814 CE Angilbert Frank/served Charlemagne as diplomat/abbot/poet/semi-son-in-law Has references
  5. 796 CE – 19 May 804 CE Alcuin 8th-century Northumbrian scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher
  6. 820 CE – 855 CE Drogo illegitimate son of Frankish emperor Charlemagne by the concubine Regina, bishop of Metz Has references
  7. 822 CE – 844 CE Hugh abbot of Saint-Quentin, son of Charlemagne Has references
  8. 836 CE – 844 CE Hugh abbot of Saint-Quentin, son of Charlemagne
  9. 836 CE – 844 CE Hugh abbot of Saint-Quentin, son of Charlemagne
  10. 966 CE – 968 CE Adalbert French saint, archbishop and missionary (c.910–981) Has references
  11. 982 CE – 984 CE Sylvester II Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
  12. 1021 CE – 1030 CE Gerard of Csanád Italian Benedictine monk, founder bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of (Szeged-)Csanád, and martyr Has references
  13. 1069 CE – 1091 CE William of Hirsau German abbot and theologian Has references
  14. 1080 CE – 1082 CE William of Hirsau German abbot and theologian Has references
  15. from 1120 CE Rupert of Deutz abbot, theologian, exegete and writer on liturgical and musical topics (1075–1129) Has references
  16. 2 February 1361 CE – 1364 CE Urban V pope of the Catholic Church from 1362 to 1370
  17. 1441 CE – 1464 CE Paul II pope of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
  18. 1455 CE – 1472 CE Basilios Bessarion Greek theologian, cardinal bishop and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1403-1472)
  19. 1456 CE – 1468 CE Juan de Torquemada spansich Dominican and cardinal (1388-1468)
  20. 1456 CE – 1462 CE Guillaume d'Estouteville French monk, archbishop and cardinal
  21. 1459 CE – 1464 CE Guillaume d'Estouteville French monk, archbishop and cardinal
  22. 1460 CE – 1483 CE Guillaume d'Estouteville French monk, archbishop and cardinal
  23. 1471 CE – 1492 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)
  24. 1475 CE – 1483 CE Guillaume d'Estouteville French monk, archbishop and cardinal
  25. 1487 CE – 1495 CE Leo X pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
  26. 1503 CE Georges d'Amboise Cardinal and minister of state (1460-1510)
  27. 1516 CE – 1521 CE Clement VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)
  28. 1537 CE – 1541 CE Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon Catholic cardinal (1523–1590)
  29. 1548 CE – 1565 CE Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon Catholic cardinal (1523–1590)
  30. 1565 CE – 1570 CE Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon Catholic cardinal (1523–1590)
Show 5 more holders
  1. 1591 CE – 1594 CE Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme Roman Catholic cardinal
  2. 1630 CE – 1643 CE Benedetto Castelli Italian mathematician (*1577/78 – †1643) Hedged in the source
  3. 1630 CE – 1643 CE Benedetto Castelli Italian mathematician (*1577/78 – †1643) Hedged in the source
  4. from 1637 CE Ingen Buddhist monk (1592-1673)
  5. from 1646 CE Ingen Buddhist monk (1592-1673)

No dates recorded 107

Show 95 more

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

0 statements on this record

This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

Keep exploring

More from Christianity

Its branches, councils, saints, offices and buildings — and where they stopped recognising each other.