Hilda of Whitby (or Hild; c. 614 – 680) was a saint of the early Church in Britain. She was the founder and first abbess of the monastery at Whitby which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664.

An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey. [1] In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic and Anglican abbeys, the mode of election, position, rights, and authority of an abbess correspond generally with those of an abbot. [2] .

Saint Hilda of Whitby ; feast day November 17) was the founder of Streaneshalch (now Whitby) Abbey and one of the foremost abbesses of Anglo-Saxon England. With Bishops SS. Colman of Lindisfarne and Cedd of the East Saxons, she led the Celtic party at …

Saint Ava was a Benedictine abbess and is a Roman Catholic saint. Ava is commemorated on April 29; she is a patron saint of the blind.

Saint Etheldreda / Ӕthelthryth / Audrey (636 -679 AD) was an East-Anglian princess who became the Queen of Northumbria and later the founder and abbess of a monastery at Ely in Cambridgeshire. These basic facts about her life are not particularly unique.

St Hild of Whitby. Hild is a significant figure in the history of English Christianity. As the abbess of Whitby – a monastery for both men and women – she led one of the most important religious centres in the Anglo-Saxon world. Lived: 614–680; Field: Abbess

The name Abbess appears for the first time in a sepulchral inscription of the year 514, found in 1901 on the site of an ancient convent of virgines sacræ which stood in Rome near the Basilica of St. Agnes extra Muros.

The female superior in spirituals and temporals of a community of twelve or more nuns. With a few necessary exceptions, the position of an Abbess in her convent corresponds generally with that of an Abbot in his monastery. The title was originally …

Feb 8, 2019 · Famous abbesses include St. Scholastica (though there's no evidence that the title was used for her), Saint Brigid of Kildare, Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise (of Heloise and Abelard fame), Teresa of Avila, Herrad of Landsberg, and St. Edith of Polesworth.

Abbess, the title of a superior of certain communities of nuns following the Benedictine Rule, of convents of the Second Order of St. Francis (Poor Clares), and of certain communities of canonesses. The first historical record of the name is on a Roman inscription dated c. 514.