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<p><b>Prior</b> (or  <b>prioress</b>) is an <a href="page.php?w=Ecclesiology">ecclesiastical</a> <a href="page.php?w=Title">title</a> for a  <a href="page.php?w=Superior_%28hierarchy%29">superior</a> in some <a href="page.php?w=religious_order">religious order</a>s. The word is derived from the <a href="page.php?w=Latin">Latin</a> for "earlier" or "first". The office may head a local house, a region of houses (prior provincial), or the entire order (prior general). Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In <a href="page.php?w=abbey">abbey</a>s,</p><p>
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