prior general

Among them, the equivalent term of prior general is the one used.

The government of the order is as follows: At the head is the prior general.

The prior general is elected every six years by the general chapter.

The president may call for earlier elections, but no sooner than a year after the prior General Election.

During this month-long meeting a new Prior General will be elected.

He resigned the office of Prior General in February 1519.

Deacons and priests are incardinated into the institute, whose prior general has the right to call to orders.

For the erection of and reception into this archconfraternity, special faculties must be had from the prior general.

After 1573 the Prior General was elected from among the priors of the various monasteries.

He was nominated as the Prior General of Mannanam monastery.

Gilles Wach is the founder and prior general.

He worked primarily as a scholar until he became Prior General of the Order in 1431.

Chavara, the only surviving founder, was appointed the first Prior General of the congregation.

The then Prior General of the Order, Fr.

Wach currently serves as prior general and Mora as rector of the seminary.

Saint Simon was probably the fifth or sixth prior general of the Carmelites (historical evidence suggests perhaps from about 1256-1266).

The following year he was made prior general of the Order, based at Camaldoli in the region of Arezzo.

In 1431 Ambrose became Prior General of the Camaldolese Order.

Saint Simon Stock, an Englishman who lived in the 13th century, was an early prior general of the Carmelite religious order.

A Prior General, with a team of four general Councilors, and a general auditor administer the congregation.

The Prior General of the Knights confirmed the prioress as Religious Superior of the community.

The first Prior General was Friar Matthew, followed by Adjutus and Philip.

The Prior General is aided by six assistants and a secretary, also elected by the General Chapter.

At its height, Lecceto was the Monastic house of four of the order's most distinguished Priors General.

The prior of Windesheim was initially automatically the Prior General, or head of the congregation, with considerable powers.