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<p>and the <a href="page.php?w=Dominican_Order">Dominicans</a>. This applies both to the <a href="page.php?w=friar">friar</a>s and the nuns of these orders. The term connotes the idea that the 'prior general' is simply the "first among equals".</p>

<p><big>Compound and derived titles</big></p>
<p>The <a href="page.php?w=Benedictine_Order">Benedictine Order</a> and its branches, the <a href="page.php?w=Premonstratensian_Order">Premonstratensian Order</a>, and the military orders have three kinds of priors:<br/>
*the claustral prior<br/>
*the conventual prior<br/></p><p>
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