English Benedictine Congregation
The English Benedictine Congregation (Latin: Congregatio Anglica Ordinis Sancti Benedicti ; English: English Benedictine Congregation , abbreviation: EBC) is an association of autonomous Roman Catholic monasteries of Benedictine monks and nuns . She is one of the oldest of the Benedictine Confederation (the oldest are the Camaldolese ).
History and administration
The congregation sees itself as a continuation of the congregation established by the Holy See in 1216 . In fact, this first congregation perished with the dissolution of the English monasteries in 1535–40. The present English Benedictine Congregation was revived from Rome 1607–1633 when eight Englishmen were trained as monks in continental European monasteries and were sent to England as missionaries .
At the beginning of the 21st century, monasteries in Great Britain , USA , South America and Africa were members of the congregation.
Every four years the general chapter elects the abbot praeses from the incumbent abbots . He has a number of assistants to help him with his office. He conducts regular visitations to ensure the preservation, strengthening and renewal of religious life.
The current Abbot President is Abbot Christopher Jamison, the former Abbot of Worth Abbey .
Abbeys and monasteries
Former convents of the congregation
Monastery in Europe | place | Period | Successor monastery in England |
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St. Gregory's Priory, Douai | Douai , Netherlands | 1607-1798 | Downside Abbey |
Dieulouard Priory | France | 1608-1798 | Ampleforth Abbey |
St. Malo Priory | St. Malo , Brittany | about 1610th - late 17th century | n / A |
St. Edmund's Priory, Paris ; later St. Edmund's Abbey, Douai | Paris | 1615-1798 (Paris); 1818-1903 (Douai) | Douai Abbey , Woolhampton |
Cambrai Priory | Cambrai , Flanders | 1625-1794 | Stanbrook Abbey |
Our Lady of Good Hope Priory, Paris | Paris | 1651-1794 | Colwich Abbey |
Lamspringe Abbey | Lamspringe , Lower Saxony | 1630-1803 | Broadway Priory , 1826-34; Fort Augustus Abbey, 1886–1998 |
Current monasteries of the congregation
United Kingdom
- Ampleforth Abbey , founded in 1608 near Dieulouard
- Belmont Abbey , founded in 1859
- Buckfast Abbey , founded in 1882
- Colwich Abbey (nuns), founded in Paris in 1651
- Curzon Park Abbey (Nuns), founded in 1868
- Douai Abbey , founded in Paris in 1615
- Downside Abbey , founded in Douai in 1607
- Ealing Abbey , founded in 1897
- Stanbrook Abbey (nuns) founded in Cambrai in 1625
- Worth Abbey , founded in 1933
United States
- Portsmouth Abbey , founded in 1918
- Saint Louis Abbey , founded in 1955
- Saint Anselm's Abbey , founded in 1923
Zimbabwe
- Monastery of Christ the Word , founded in 1996
Peru
- Priory of the Incarnation, founded in 1981 in Tambogrande , from 2006 in Pachacamac , in May 2018, the premises of a Cistercian monastery in Lurin moved
literature
- Cormac Begadon: An "enlightened" opportunist. Richard Marsh OSB (1762-1843) . In: Erbe und Einsatz , 94 (2018), pp. 260–274. [The article traces the life of the later President of the English Congregation.]
- Overview and map . In: Erbe und Einsatz , 94 (2018), p. 246f. [The map shows all the current monasteries in the English Congregation, as well as the branches of the other Benedictine Congregations on the British Isles, as well as those of the Cistercians and the Anglican Churches.]
- The Benedictine Yearbook 2018
Web links
- EBC website
- History of the EBC
- Religiosus Ordo , The Apostolic Letter of Pope Leo XIII of 12 November 1889, concerning the modification of the government and discipline of the EBC (with an outline of the EBC history since the 16th century)