provosts in English
noun
1
a senior administrative officer in certain colleges and universities.
White women provosts at leading research universities, including Ivy League institutions, are not rarities these days.
2
the head of a chapter in a cathedral.
I had the good fortune to discover this in my own ministry, partly because I was constantly acting in a diaconal role to my bishop as his director of ordination candidates or as the provost of his cathedral.
3
the chief magistrate of a French or other European town.
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1. These Archdeacons were generally priests, either canons of the cathedral or provosts of the principal (collegiate) churches in small towns
2. After their principals had become extinct, they became ministeriales of the territorial lords and provosts of Seckau, among them Arnold, Ortolf, who decreed renovations and new constructions of the Abbey, as well as Ulrich II. von Pranckh.