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Definition of Priories

Priories
Priory Pri"o*ry, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. Syn: See Cloister.

Meaning of Priories from wikipedia

- priories in Germany and Italy during the Middle Ages, and in England all monasteries attached to cathedral churches were known as cathedral priories....
- Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
- The List of abbeys and priories in the United Kingdom is organised by country: Abbeys and priories in England Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland List...
- Abbeys and priories in Hampshire lists abbeys, priories, friaries or other monastic religious houses in Hampshire, England. Hampshire, and especially the...
- time of Richard II, the alien priories continued mostly in the hands of the Crown. In 1378, all the monks in alien priories were expelled from England....
- List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory. As of 2016[update], the Catholic Church has 3,600 abbeys and monasteries worldwide...
- properties within a single language sphere. The grand priories were sometimes subdivided into smaller priories and bailiwicks, and at the lowest level, into commanderies...
- This is a list of the abbeys, priories, friaries and other monastic religious houses in Ireland. This article provides a gazetteer for the whole of Ireland...
- divided regionally into six Grand Priories, six Sub-Priories and 48 ****ociations. The six Grand Priories are: Grand Priory of Rome (founded 1214; expropriated...
- and priories List of monastic houses in England List of monastic houses in Scotland List of monastic houses in Wales List of abbeys and priories in Northern...