American-Cassinese Congregation

The American Cassinese Benedictine Congregation is an association of Benedictine monasteries in North America, Asia and South America. The congregation is under the patronage of the Holy Guardian Angel.

History of the Congregation

Mother House of the Congregation and the starting point is the Abbey of St. Vincent, which was founded in 1846 as the first Benedictine monastery in the United States of North America by Boniface Wimmer OSB from the Bavarian Benedictine Metten. The Congregation was founded on August 24, 1855 by Pope Pius IX. built. It now consists of 20 independent monasteries and 8 dependent. The monasteries of the Congregation today consists of more than 800 monks.

Monasteries of the Congregation

(in order of Catalogus )

  • Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States ( founded in 1846 ) Priory in Savannah, Georgia USA (founded 1877)
  • Mosteiro de São Bento (Priorat ) in Vinhedo, Brazil (founded in 1650, the Congregation connected 1964)
  • Wimmer Priory in Taiwan ( established in 1964 )
  • Saint John 's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, United States ( founded in 1856 ) Trinity Benedictine Monastery (Priorat ) in Fujimi, Japan
  • (St. Augustine 's Monastery in Nassau, Bahamas USA founded in 1947, closed 2005)
  • Saint Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, United States ( founded in 1857 ) Mosteiro São José (Priorat ) in Mineiros, Brazil ( founded in 1962 )
  • Saint Mary's Abbey in Morristown, New Jersey, United States ( founded in 1857 )
  • Territorial Abbey Mary Help of Christians in Belmont, North Carolina, United States ( founded in 1876 )
  • Saint Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama, United States ( founded in 1891 )
  • Saint Procopius Abbey in Lisle, Illinois, United States ( founded in 1885 ) Priory in Chiayi, Taiwan (1966 )
  • Saint Gregory 's Abbey in Shawnee, Oklahoma (1875, founded by Pierre- Qui- Vire Monastery, France)
  • Saint Leo Saint Leo Abbeyin, Florida, USA (founded 1889)
  • Assumption Abbey Richardton, North Dakota (1893, founded by Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln, Switzerland ) Monasterio de Benedictino Tibati (Priorat ) in Bogotá, Colombia
  • Saint Bede's Abbey in Peru, Illinois, United States ( founded in 1891 )
  • Saint Peter 's Abbey in Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada ( founded in 1892 )
  • Saint Martin 's Abbey in Lacey, Washington, USA (founded 1895)
  • Saint Anselm Abbey, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States ( founded in 1889 ) Woodside Priory, California ( founded in 1957, depending since 1976)
  • Saint Andrew Abbey in Cleveland, Ohio (founded in 1922)
  • (Resigned in 2006 from the Congregation of Holy Trinity Monastery in Butler, Pennsylvania; ; founded in 1948 )
  • Mount Saviour Monastery ( Priorat) in Pine City, New York, USA (1950 )
  • Newark Abbey, New Jersey ( 1857) ( Saint Maur Priory in Indianapolis, Indiana, founded in 1947, from 1990 to 2004 depending on Newark, closed)
  • Abadia del Tepeyac in Tlalnepantla, Mexico ( founded in 1946 )
  • Abadia de San Antonio Abad in Humacao, Puerto Rico ( founded in 1947 )
  • Mary Mother of the Church ( Abbey) in Richmond, Virginia, USA (founded 1911)

Abtpäsides the Congregation

  • Abbot Boniface Wimmer, OSB, 1855-1887
  • Abbot Alexius Edelbrock, OSB, 1888 - 1890
  • Abbot Leo Haid, OSB, 1890-1896
  • Abbot Innocent Wolf, OSB, 1896-1902
  • Abbot Peter Engel, OSB, 1902-1914
  • Abbot Ernest Helmstefter OSB, 1914-1932
  • Abbot Alcuin German OSB, 1932-1944
  • Abbot Mark Brown, OSB, 1944-1953
  • Abbot Denis Strittmatter, OSB, 1953-1965
  • Abbot Baldwin Dworschak OSB, 1965-1971
  • Abbot Martin Burne, OSB, 1971-1983
  • Abbot John Eidenschink OSB, 1983-1989
  • Abbot Melvin Valvano OSB, 1989-2001
  • Abbot Timothy Kelly, OSB, 2001 - 2010
  • Abbot Hugh Anderson, OSB, 2010-2016
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