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Amonastery whose superior is aprior. TheDominicans,Augustinian Hermits,Carthusians,Carmelites,Servites (Order of Servites), andBrothers of Mercy call all theirmonasteries priories. TheBenedictines and their offshoots, thePremonstratensians, and themilitary orders distinguish between conventual and simple orobedientiary priories. Conventual priories are those autonomous houses which have noabbots, either because the canonically required number of twelvemonks has not yet been reached or for some other reason. TheCongregation of Cluny had many conventual priories. There were likewise many conventual priories inGermany andItaly during theMiddle Ages, and inEngland allmonasteries attached tocathedral churches were known ascathedral priories. Nearly all themonasteries of the famousMaurist Congregation inFrance (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) were called priories. At present theBenedictine Order has twenty-seven conventual priories. Simple orobedientiary priories are dependencies ofabbeys. Their superior, who is subject to theabbot in everything, is called simple orobedientiary prior.
For bibliography see PRIOR.
APA citation.Ott, M.(1911).Priory. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12428b.htm
MLA citation.Ott, Michael."Priory."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 12.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1911.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12428b.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F. Holbrook.Ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus per Iesum Christum.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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