{"slug": "prior-ecclesiastical", "label": "Prior (ecclesiastical)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_%28ecclesiastical%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830337", "qid": "Q830337", "description": "ecclesiastical title for a monastic superior", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1063, 1605], "span_label": ["1063 CE", "1605 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 6}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "diocese-of-canterbury", "label": "Diocese of Canterbury", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anselm-of-canterbury", "label": "Anselm of Canterbury", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "benedictines", "label": "Benedictines", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spanish-netherlands", "label": "Spanish Netherlands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "flanders", "label": "Flanders", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "douai", "label": "Douai", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "benedictine", "label": "Benedictine", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1063, "year_label": "1063 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Anselm, later to become archbishop of Canterbury, becomes prior at the Abbey of Bec (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370137387#Religion", "title": "1063", "revid": 1370137387, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1107, "year_label": "1107 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Anthelm of Belley, French prior and bishop (d. 1178)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365266728#Births", "title": "1107", "revid": 1365266728, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1124, "year_label": "1124 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – Nicholas of Worcester, prior of the Benedictine priory of Worcester Cathedral", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368412301#Deaths", "title": "1124", "revid": 1368412301, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1172, "year_label": "1172 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Hugh of Fouilloy, French prior and writer", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369184481#Deaths", "title": "1172", "revid": 1369184481, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1178, "year_label": "1178 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Anthelm of Belley, French prior and bishop (b. 1107)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362170417#Deaths", "title": "1178", "revid": 1362170417, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1257, "year_label": "1257 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – Simon of Elmham, English prior and bishop-elect", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350011805#Deaths", "title": "1257", "revid": 1350011805, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1274, "year_label": "1274 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – Robert Stitchill (or Stichel), English prior and bishop", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356688810#Deaths", "title": "1274", "revid": 1356688810, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1286, "year_label": "1286 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16 – Hugh de Balsham, English sub-prior and bishop", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363071337#Deaths", "title": "1286", "revid": 1363071337, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477436#Date_unknown", "title": "1605", "revid": 1362477436, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}