El Abad de la Abadia. The abbot of the abbey.
You don't actually think for one moment the Catholic Church would permit calling their priests by a muslin word? Of course not! Abad is a Spanish word found in any dictionary.
El noble linaje de los Abad procede del senorio de Viacaya, segun lo manifiestan los tratadistas Alberto y Arturo Garcia Carraftta, y agregan que la casa troncal radico en el Valle de Gordejuela. My ABAD grandfather came from Mieres, Espana.
I have meet many persons of many nationalists with the name ABAD worldwide. I have traced it to the eleventh century. and it came from Vizcaya, Euskadi (Vasco Northern Spain) The name can be found en el Registro General Militar de Segovia. The Motto on the Coat of Arms reads: Castro-Abad
Viva Espana y Viva el nombre Abad