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A convent is either a community of priests , religious brothers or religious sisters ( nuns ); or the building used by the community , particularly in the ___MASK24___ Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion . Etymology and usage . The term derives via Old French from Latin " conventus ", perfect participle of the verb " convenio ", meaning to convene , to come together . The original reference was to the gathering of mendicants who spent much of their time travelling . Technically , a " monastery " or " nunnery " is a community of monastics , whereas a " friary " or " convent " is a community of mendicants , and a " canonry " a community of canons regular . The terms " abbey " and " priory " can be applied to both monasteries and canonries ; an abbey is headed by an Abbot , and a priory is a lesser dependent house headed by a Prior . ___MASK18___ Cathedral or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of ___MASK18___ , and sometimes St . Mary ' s Cathedral in ___MASK18___ , England is the seat of the Anglican bishop . Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period . It was the tallest building in the world for 238 years ( 1311  1549 ), and the first building to hold that title after the Great Pyramid of Giza . The central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt . The cathedral is the third largest in Britain ( in floor area ) after St Paul ' s and York Minster , being . It is highly regarded by architectural scholars ; the eminent Victorian writer John Ruskin declared : " I have always held ... that the cathedral of ___MASK18___ is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have ." A nun is a member of a religious community of women , typically one living under vows of poverty , chastity , and obedience . She may have decided to dedicate her life to serving all other living beings , or she might be an ascetic who voluntarily chose to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a ___MASK57___ or convent . The term " nun " is applicable to Catholics ( eastern and western traditions ), Orthodox Christians , Anglicans , Lutherans , Jains , Buddhists , Taoists , Hindus and some other religious traditions . Gilbert of ___MASK14___ , CRSA ( c . 1083  4 February 1190 ), the founder of the ___MASK81___ , was the only Englishman to found a conventual order , mainly because the Abbot of Cîteaux declined his request to assist him in organising a group of women who wanted to live as nuns , living with lay brothers and sisters , in 1148 . In the end he founded a double monastery of canons regular and nuns . Henry of ___MASK34___ ( 1088  1157 AD ), the son of a canon in the diocese of ___MASK18___ , was a 12th - century English historian , the author of a history of England , the " Historia Anglorum ", " the most important Anglo - Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy ". He served as archdeacon of ___MASK34___ . The few details of Henry ' s life that are known originated from his own works and from a number of official records . He was brought up in the wealthy court of Robert Bloet of ___MASK18___ , who became his patron . The ___MASK81___ of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham , ___MASK9___ , where Gilbert was the parish priest . It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries . The Diocese of ___MASK18___ forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England . The present diocese covers the ceremonial county of ___MASK9___ . Robert Bloet ( alias Robert Bloett , family later Bluett ) ( died 1123 ) was ___MASK38___ of ___MASK18___ 1093 - 1123 and Chancellor of England . Born into a noble Norman family , he became a royal clerk under King William I . Under William I ' s son and successor King William II , Bloet was first named chancellor then appointed to the See of ___MASK18___ . Continuing to serve the king while bishop , Bloet remained a close royal councillor to William II ' s successor , King Henry I . He did much to embellish ___MASK18___ Cathedral , and gave generously to his cathedral and other religious houses . He educated a number of noblemen , including illegitimate children of Henry I . He also was the patron of the medieval chronicler Henry of Huntingdon , and was an early patron of Gilbert of Sempringham , the founder of the Gilbertine monastic order . The ___MASK38___ of ___MASK18___ is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of ___MASK18___ in the Province of Canterbury . The Province of ___MASK5___ , or less formally the Southern Province , is one of two ecclesiastical provinces which constitute the Church of ___MASK40___ . The other is the Province of York ( which consists of 12 dioceses ). It consists of 30 dioceses , covering roughly two - thirds of ___MASK40___ , parts of ___MASK39___ , and the Channel Islands , with the remainder comprising continental Europe ( under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe ). The Great Pyramid of ___MASK61___ ( also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the ___MASK61___ pyramid complex bordering what is now El ___MASK61___ , ___MASK84___ . It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , and the only one to remain largely intact . A double ___MASK57___ ( also double house ) is a ___MASK57___ combining a separate community of monks and one of nuns , joined in one institution . More common in the monasticism of Eastern Christianity , where they are found since the 4th century , in the West the establishment of double monasteries became popular after Columbanus and were found in Anglo - Saxon ___MASK40___ and Gaul . Double monasteries were forbidden by the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 , though it took many years for the decree to be enforced . In a significantly different way , double monasteries were revived again after the 12th century , when a number of religious houses were established on this pattern , among Benedictines and possibly the Dominicans . The 14th - century Bridgittines were consciously founded using this form of community . ___MASK14___ is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of ___MASK9___ , England . It is situated south from the A52 road , east from Grantham and north from ___MASK78___ . The hamlet is in the civil parish of Pointon and ___MASK14___ ( where the population is included ), and on the western edge of the ___MASK9___ Fens , the closest village being Billingborough , to the north on the B1177 road . ___MASK14___ is noted as the home of Gilbert of ___MASK14___ , the son of the lord of the manor . Gilbert is the only English Saint to have founded a monastic order , the Gilbertines . The Church of ___MASK40___ ( C of E ) is the Anglican Christian state church of ___MASK40___ . Headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury ( currently Justin Welby ) and primarily governed from London with the monarch as the supreme governor , the Church of ___MASK40___ is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion . The church dates its formal establishment as a national church to the 6th - century Gregorian mission in ___MASK13___ led by Augustine of Canterbury , with considerable features introduced and established during and following the English Reformation in the 16th century . The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in ___MASK62___ , commonly known as ___MASK62___ Minster , is the cathedral of ___MASK62___ , ___MASK40___ , and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe . The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of ___MASK62___ , the second - highest office of the Church of ___MASK40___ , and is the mother church for the Diocese of ___MASK62___ and the Province of ___MASK62___ . It is run by a dean and chapter , under the Dean of ___MASK62___ . The title " minster " is attributed to churches established in the Anglo - Saxon period as missionary teaching churches , and serves now as an honorific title . Services in the minster are sometimes regarded as on the High Church or Anglo - Catholic end of the Anglican continuum .