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In total, the outlets reported that nine abbots and senior monks have stepped down from their roles or been thrown out of the monkhood in relation to Emsawat’s case.
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 17 July 2025
For years, guilt and anguish haunted the temple’s abbot, Ham Tae-wan.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 13 June 2025
On the Sunday before the wedding, two of them—the abbot emeritus Padre Norberto Villa and his colleague Padre Paolo Maria Censori—filed into the Chapel of the Dead to celebrate Mass.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
Eugenia, raised pagan, joined a monastery to learn more about Christianity and later became abbot.
—Sarah Barringer, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 17 July 2025
For years, guilt and anguish haunted the temple’s abbot, Ham Tae-wan.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 13 June 2025
On the Sunday before the wedding, two of them—the abbot emeritus Padre Norberto Villa and his colleague Padre Paolo Maria Censori—filed into the Chapel of the Dead to celebrate Mass.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
Eugenia, raised pagan, joined a monastery to learn more about Christianity and later became abbot.
—Sarah Barringer, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
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“Abbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abbot. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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abbot
noun
ab·bot
ˈab-ət 
: the head of a monastery for men
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