New Melleray Abbey
The Abbey New Melleray (lat. Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Novo Melleario ;. English New Melleray Abbey ) is since 1849 one American monastery of Trappist monks in Peosta, Dubuque County , Iowa , Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque .
history
The Irish monastery of Mount Melleray founded the New Melleray monastery in the United States in 1849 as a possible refuge from the great famine in Ireland ( elevated to an abbey in 1862 ). At the height of the vocations (1961) the monastery had 160 monks. The manufacture of coffins currently contributes to the maintenance of the monastery.
Foundations
- 1951: Ava Trappist Abbey (Missouri)
- (Failed Wexford, Iowa Foundation, 1857-1858)
Priors and abbots
- Clement Smyth (1849; 1852-1857)
- James O'Gorman (1849-1850, 1857-1859)
- Francis Walsh (1850-1852)
- Bernard McCaffery (1859-1860; 1861-1862)
- Ignatius Foley (1860–1861)
- Ephrem McDonnell (1862-1883, first abbot )
- Alberic Dunlea (1883-1889; 1897-1917)
- Louis Carew (1889-1897)
- Bruno Ryan (1917-1944)
- Albert Beston (1944-1946)
- Eugene Martin (1946-1952)
- Vincent Daly (1952-1954)
- Philippe O'Connor (1954–1964)
- Matthias (James) Kerndt (1964–1966)
- Gérard Kennedy (1966-1967)
- Ignace Weber (1967)
- David (Berchmans) Wechter (1967–1976)
- David Bock (1976-1984)
- Brendan Freeman (1984-2013)
- Mark Scott, Abbot (2014–)