abbot primate

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Noun[edit]

abbot primate (plural abbots primate or abbot primates)

  1. (Catholicism) The representative leader of all Benedictine congregations.

References[edit]

  • Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN)