Editing Abbot (section)

{{short description|Religious title}}
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[[File:Template-Abbot - Provost.svg|right|thumb|Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold [[crozier]] with a veil attached and a black [[galero]] with twelve tassels (the galero of a [[territorial abbot]] would be green).]]
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[[File:Santo Domingo de Silos entronizado como obispo, por Bartolomé Bermejo.jpg|thumb|upright|St. [[Dominic of Silos]] enthroned as abbot (Hispano-Flemish Gothic 15th century)]]

'''Abbot''' is an [[Ecclesiastical titles and styles|ecclesiastical title]] given to the head of an independent [[monastery]] for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from ''abba'', the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ''ab'', and means "father".<ref>Thomas Oesterreich, ''Abbot'', in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.</ref> The female equivalent is [[abbess]].