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priory

religious houses that rank immediately below abbeys and are presided over by a prior or prioress
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priory

Summary

priory ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (663 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • priory is a type of monastery[2].
  • priory is a type of ecclesiastical district[3].
  • priory's Commons category is recorded as Priories[4].
  • priory comprises priory church[5].
  • priory's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Priories[6].
  • priory's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[7].
  • priory's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • priory's position held by head of the organization is recorded as prior[9].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include monastery[2] and ecclesiastical district[3].

Use and Application

priory comprises priory church[5].

Why It Matters

priory ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (663 views/month).[1] priory has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] priory is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → priory church
    Has parts → —
    Subclass of → monastery, ecclesiastical district
    Topic's main category → Category:Priories
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536356405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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