Priory Of Lièpvre
A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. They were created by the Catholic Church. Priories may be monastic houses of monks or nuns (such as the Benedictines The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly Christian mysticism, contemplative Christian monasticism, monastic Religious order (Catholic), order of the Catholic Church for men and f ..., the Cistercians, or the Carthusians, Charterhouses). Houses of canon regular, canons & canonesses regular also use this term, the alternative being "canonry". mendicant order, Mendicant houses, of friars, nuns, or tertiary sisters (such as the Dominican Order, Friars Preachers, Augustinian Hermits, and Carmelites) also exclusively use this term. In English Reformation, pre-Reformation England, if an abbey church was raised to cathedral status, the abbey became a cathedral priory. The bishop, in effect, took the plac ...
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