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The word is who presided in the minster, rather than a Bishop , as at a cathedral. Westminster Abbey is not the seat of the Bishop Of London , whose seat is St Paul's Cathedral . In the United Kingdom aside from these there are Beverley Minster , Southwell Minster , Wimborne Minster , Peterborough Minster , Reading Minster , Sunderland Minster , Iwerne Minster , Stow Minster , Dewsbury Minster , Berkeley Minster , Tewkesbury Minster , South Elmham Minster , Howden Minster , St. Botolf's Minster ( Iken , Suffolk), Rotherham Minster , Preston Minster , Ripon Minster Lincoln Minster[http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/image/England/lincoln/Cathedral/Mainlincolncathedral.html , Hemingbrough Minster, by no means all seats of bishops. In the case of the Ulm Münster in Germany , the term was used for a particularly prosperous parish church boasting a plethora of clergy. In other places in Europe , “minster” has become simply a historical term for a particular church, e.g. the minsters of Strasbourg (France); Basel and Bern (Switzerland); Bonn , Essen , Freiburg , Aachen , Hamelin , Doberan (all Germany). SEE ALSO
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