priorate

• “His election to the priorate was the most important event in Dante's public life.”

  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

• “The era of the Counter-Reform coincided with the priorate of Giovan Battista Capponi 1588-1613.”

  Agostino Carracci: The Last Communion of St Jerome

• “The execution of the Bull was confided to the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, by whom (4 June, 1876) the entire province of Ciudad Real was made a bishopric-priorate of the Military Orders, and for all canonical purposes constituted a territory vere et proprie nullius di cesis, i.e. exempt from all neighbouring jurisdiction.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “After three years he was, upon his own urgent request, relieved from the priorate and returned to Saint-Germain-des-Prés.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

• “It is not improbable that he was succeeded in the priorate by Julian about 1009, but there seems to be no satisfactory evidence that he was ever Bishop of Gubbio.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “During the priorate of St. Peter Damian several hermits of great sanctity were members of Fonte-Avellana.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “During his priorate at Arnheim he had the happiness and honour of "converting" one of his friends and fellow-students at”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “His priorate was characterized by a wise moderation of the rule, as well as by the foundation of subject-hermitages at San Severino, Gamugno, Acerata,”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “It is a very large priorate, for it has more than one thousand rich and influential Indians.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

• “[152] Another was established in Nalbacán, a priorate with a vote, although it has been greatly exhausted by the burning of the church and convent.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

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