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What is an abbacy?

What is an abbacy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
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He had a grant of the abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, when only seven years of age.
I think that this was referring to the court before Jokyu, but at the time I heard that he had already resigned the abbacy.
He refused the archbishopric of Naples and the abbacy of Monte Cassino.
During his abbacy, he kept the Buckfast community abreast of changes in the outside world.
When Malachy secured possession of the see he remained long enough in Armagh to establish himself in the abbacy.
Under the abbacy of St Ailred, it flourished, becoming the largest Cistercian community in England.

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