Abbots

Saint Odilo of Cluny (ca. 962 – 1 January 1049) was the fifth Benedictine Abbot of Cluny, holding the post for around 54 years.

Vincenzo Gioberti (Italian pronunciation: [vinˈtʃɛntso dʒoˈbɛrti]; 5 April 1801 – 26 October 1852) was an Italian philosopher, publicist and politician.

Hidulf (died 707) was a Benedictine abbot, founder of Moyenmoutier Abbey, and reputed bishop of Trier.

Saint John Climacus (Greek: Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος; Latin: Ioannes Climacus), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 7th-century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.

Saint Winwaloe (Breton: Gwenole; French: Guénolé; Latin: Winwallus or Winwalœus; c. 460 – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally "Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe.

Saint William of Volpiano (Italian : Guglielmo da Volpiano ; French : Guillaume de Volpiano; English : William of Dijon, William of Saint Benignus) (June/July 962 – January 1, 1031) was an Italian monastic reformer and architect.

Ursmar (died 713) was a missionary bishop, appointed abbot of Lobbes by the Frankish king Pippin II.

Saint Albinus of Angers (French: Saint-Aubin) (c. 470 – March 1, 550) was a French abbot and bishop.

Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre (18 February 1658 – 29 April 1743) was a French author whose ideas were novel for his times.

Benno Walter Gut, OSB (April 1, 1897 – December 8, 1970) was a Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Luka Lev Kiszka (Belarusian: Леў Кішка, Ukrainian: Лев Кишка, Polish: Leon Kiszka) (1663—1728) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and Russia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1714 to his death in 1728.

Sigeric (died 28 October 994) was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 990 to 994.

Gerasimus of the Jordan (Greek: Γεράσιμοςἐν Ιορδάν, Abba Gerasimus, Holy Righteous Father Gerasimus of Jordan—also spelled Gerasimos or Gerasim) -a Christian saint, monk and abbot of the 5th century AD.

Pierre Danet (1650, Paris – 1709) was a French cleric, Latinist, Hellenist, Romanist and lexicographer.

Rev. Ab. Jeremias Schröder OSB (born 8 December 1964 as Maximilian Schröder in Mindelheim) is the Archabbot President of the Congregation of Sant'Ottilia.

Venantius of Berri was a fifth century Saint and abbot.

Abbot, meaning father, is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity.

Wolfgang Öxler OSB (born 1 May 1957 in Dillingen an der Donau as Erwin Öxler) is a German Benedictine and archabbot of the St.

Ryushin Paul Haller, a Soto Zen roshi, is a former Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center—a position he held from 2003 until February 2012.

Peter of Atroa (773–837) was an abbot who was later canonized as a saint.

Frothar of Toul was bishop of Toul from around 813 to his death in 847.

Liangqing (良卿法师) was a Chinese Buddhist Monk and Abbot of Famen Temple (Chinese: 法门寺; pinyin: Fǎmén Sì).

Saint Landelin (Landelinus) (c.625-686, Belgium) was a former brigand who underwent a Christian conversion.

Joseph François Marie (1738 – 1801) was a French mathematician.

Emo of Friesland (c. 1175 probably in Fivelingo–1237 in Wittewierum) was a Frisian scholar who probably came from the region of Groningen, and the earliest foreign student studying at Oxford University whose name has survived.

Gregor von Burtscheid (c. 940 - 4 November 999), also known as Gregor von Calabria, was the first abbot of the Burtscheid Abbey, founded on order of Otto III, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

William Rugg (also Rugge, Repps, Reppes; died 1550) was an English Benedictine theologian, and bishop of Norwich from 1536 to 1549.

William Russell (died 1374) was a fourteenth-century Cistercian prelate.

Saint Ansegisus (c. 770 – 20 July 833 or 834) was a monastic reformer of the Franks.

Hilduin was from a prominent Frankish family.

Nicholas Vreeland, also known as Rato Khen Rinpoche, Geshe Thupten Lhundup, is a fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk who is the abbot of Rato Dratsang Monastery, a 10th century Tibetan Buddhist monastery reestablished in India.

Dom Rosendo Salvado Rotea OSB (1 March 1814 – 29 December 1900) was a Spanish Benedictine monk, missionary, bishop, author, founder and first Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of New Norcia, in Western Australia.

Coelchu (fl. latter half of the eighth century AD) was the abbot of the School of Clonmacnoise in Ireland.

Marie-Gabriel Tissot (1886 - 1983), in 1937 become the first Abbot of Quarr Abbey, England in modern times.

Atala or Attala (died 622) was a disciple of Columbanus and his successor as abbot of Bobbio from 615.