Abbot Oliva

Abbot Oliva

male, deceased (1046)
Oliva (c. 971-1046), also spelled Oliba, was the count of Berga (998-1003) and Ripoll and later bishop of Vic (1018-1046) and abbot of Sant Miquel...
Rennyo

Rennyo

male, deceased (1499)
"'"' (1415-1499) was the 8th abbot of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism and is often referred to as the restorer of the sect (or, the second...
John Of Nepomuk

John Of Nepomuk

male, deceased (1393)
John of Nepomuk or John Nepomucene is a national saint of Bohemia. In his fully developed legend he was the confessor of the Queen of Bohemia and...
Henry Murdac

Henry Murdac

male, deceased (1153)
Henry Murdac, abbot of Fountains Abbey (1144-1147) and Archbishop of York (1147-1153), was a native of Yorkshire, but descended from a wealthy...
Dennis Genpo Merzel

Dennis Genpo Merzel

male
Dennis Genpo Merzel (1944 to present) was born in Brooklyn, NY and is a Zen Buddhist teacher as well as a Dharma heir to Taizan Maezumi. As a young...

Abbot Of Lindores

male
The Abbot of Lindores (later Commendator of Lindores) was the head of the Tironensian monastic community and lands of Lindores Abbey, Fife (the...
Laurence Mancuso

Laurence Mancuso

male, deceased (2007)
Laurence Mancuso (born June 30, 1934 - died June 10, 2007) was the founding abbot of the New Skete Eastern Orthodox monastic community in upstate...

William Of Saint-Thierry

male, deceased (1148)
William of Saint-Thierry was a French monk and theologian. He was born in Liège, France. The son of a noble family studied the scholastic of St. A...
Aimoin

Aimoin

male, deceased (1010)
Aimoin (c. 960-c. 1010), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury,...
Christopher Butler

Christopher Butler

male, deceased (1986)
Abbot, later Bishop, Basil Christopher Butler OSB (May 7, 1902-September 20, 1986), a convert from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic...