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Meaning of prior



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

prior
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Superior of a monastery or convent. The first between two, prelated. Religious or monk of higher rank, but inferior to an Abbot.

  



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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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