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Abbess

For the Buddhist title, see Abbot and abbess (Buddhism).
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Eufemia Szaniawska, Abbess of the Benedictine Monastery in Nieśwież with a crosier, c. 1768, National Museum in Warsaw
Abbess Joanna van Doorselaer de ten Ryen, Waasmunster Roosenberg Abbey
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An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey.[1]

  1. ^ Oestreich (1913).

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