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search The coat of arms of a territorial abbot are distinguished
by a green galero with twelve tassels and a gold crozier with a
veil attached.  A territorial abbey (or territorial abbacy) is a
type of particular church within the Roman Catholic Church.
Normally an abbot is the superior of an abbey (a monastery), and
exercises authority over a religious family of monks. His
authority extends only as far as the monastery's walls, or only
to the monks who have taken their vows in his monastery. A
territorial abbot - also called an abbot nullius diœceseos,
Latin "belonging to no diocese", or abbreviated abbot nullius -
functions additionally as the ecclesiastical ordinary for the
Catholics and parishes within a defined territory around the
monastery, in much the same way a bishop does for a diocese.
The practice arose in part because abbeys served the spiritual
needs of Catholics who lived near t