Trappist Abbey of Mississippi

The Trappist Abbey of Mississippi has been an American monastery in Dubuque (Iowa) , Archdiocese of Dubuque , since 1964 .

history

The Trappist Abbey of Wrentham , the first Cistercian abbey in the United States , founded Our Lady of the Mississippi Monastery in 1964 as its first daughter monastery (in the south of Dubuque and not far from New Melleray Abbey ) , which was elevated to an abbey in 1970 .

Superiors and Abbesses

• Columba Guare (1964–1982)
• Gail Fitzpatrick (1982-2006)
• Nettie Louise Ganble (2006-2012)
• Rebecca Stramoski (2012-)

Foundations

• 1999: Tautra Monastery ( Norway , repopulation)

See also

• List of monasteries # Trappist women

Web links

Commons : Mississippi Trappist Abbey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the abbey with founding history, English
• Page of the abbey in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
• Page of the abbey on the Trappist homepage
• Page of the abbey on the homepage of the American Trappists

Coordinates: 42 ° 24 '57.6 "  N , 90 ° 35' 42"  W.