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SacredHeartFan
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What is the difference between a monastery and an abbey?? 
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rowermath
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Well, since no one else has answered yet, I think I’ll give it a go.
The only information I can offer is that I think it depends on the order which lives there. Don’t some orders have abbeys, and others monasteries?
The only information I can offer is that I think it depends on the order which lives there. Don’t some orders have abbeys, and others monasteries?
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tee_eff_em
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If you click on the Old Catholic Encyclopedia link above, you can read about it yourself.
An abbey is a monastery, but a monastery isn’t necessarily an abbey. An abbey is an autonomous monastic house of no fewer than twelve members, and governed by an abbot (or abbess, as appropriate). (And a priory is governed by a prior or prioress)
Monastics live in monasteries; Friars live in Friaries.
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An abbey is a monastery, but a monastery isn’t necessarily an abbey. An abbey is an autonomous monastic house of no fewer than twelve members, and governed by an abbot (or abbess, as appropriate). (And a priory is governed by a prior or prioress)
Monastics live in monasteries; Friars live in Friaries.
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PaulJason
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I always thought that one made better beer then the other 
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