Superior of a monastery or convent. The first between two, prelated. Religious or monk of higher rank, but inferior to an Abbot.
furoya
Although by its Prior Latin origin, oris means "the first or principal of a pair", already in the Middle Ages I take for the Church the meaning of "prelated" even if there was not a second, or he himself was the second of an abbot.
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