Everything about Priory totally explained
A
priory is a
house of men or women under religious vows headed by a
prior or prioress.
Priories may be houses of mendicant
friars or religious sisters (as the
Dominicans,
Augustinians and
Carmelites, for instance), or
monasteries of
monks or
nuns (as the
Carthusians).
The
Benedictines and their offshoots (
Cistercians and
Trappists among them), the
Premonstratensians, and the
military orders distinguish between
conventual and simple or
obedientiary priories.
Conventual priories are those autonomous houses which have no
abbots, either because the canonically required number of twelve monks hasn't yet been reached or for some other reason. At present the Benedictine Order has twenty-seven conventual priories.
Simple or
obedientiary priories are dependencies of abbeys. Their superior, who is subject to the abbot in everything, is called simple or obedientiary prior. These monasteries are satellites of the mother abbey.
Priories were originally Catholic institutions. A special case is the ecumenical priory of the
Taizé Community.
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