A Prince-abbot is a cleric, who is a prince of the church (like a prince-bishop) in the sense of an ex officio temporal lord of a feudal entity known as prince-abbacy or abbey-principality, which is an area that is ruled by the head of an abbey. The term Prince of the Church is nowadays used nearly exclusively for Catholic Cardinals However the term is historically more important as a generic term for clergymen An abbey (from Latin abbatia derived from Syriac abba "father" is a Christian Monastery or
The designated abbey may be a monastery or a convent. This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. A convent is a community of Priests religious brothers religious sisters or Nuns or the building used by the community particularly in the Roman Catholic Church Thus, because of the possibility of it being a convent, an abbey-principality is one of the few cases in which the rule can be restricted to female incumbents, styled princess-abbess.
In many cases, they were prince of the empire of a Reichsabtei in or near Germany, with a seat in the Reichstag (imperial diet). (plural Fürsten) is a German title of nobility, usually translated into English as Prince. Imperial abbeys ( German: Reichsabteien, also Reichsklöster and Reichsstifte) were religious houses within the Holy Roman Empire which
Other examples include the abbot nullius of Pinerolo in Piedmont
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