Zircer Cistercian Congregation
The Zirc Cistercian congregation (formerly also Hungarian Cistercian congregation ; Latin Congregatio Zircensis ; Hungarian: Ciszterci end Zirci Kongregációja ) is a voluntary worldwide association, a congregation of a plurality of independent monasteries of Cistercian led by a nut convent , the Abbey Zirc .
Pope Pius XI founded the Zirc Cistercian Congregation on January 27, 1923 with the Zirc Abbey, the Szentgotthárd Abbey and others in Eger, Székesfehérvár, Pécs, Baja, Buda and Budapest. From 1947 to 1977 Hungarian Cistercians settled in the US Spring Bank , Wisconsin, and founded a priory there, and from 1963 an abbey. In 1955 a priory was founded in Dallas , from 1963 Our Lady of Dallas Abbey . In 1996 the Cistercian Abbey of Nővérek was founded in Kismaros, Hungary. After the dissolution of the monasteries and orders in Hungary on September 7, 1950, the congregation could not be reorganized until 1980. Today the abbeys in Zirc, Dallas and Kismaros belong to the Zirc Cistercian Congregation.
The seat of the congregation is the 12th century Cistercian monk abbey Zirc in the Bakony forest in Veszprém county and north of the city of Veszprém in Hungary , on the Cuha brook.
Abbot President
Since 1923 the Abbot of Zirc has automatically been Abbot Preses of the Zirc Cistercian Congregation (= Praeses natus ).
- Békefi Remig OCist, President from 1923 to 1924
- Adolf Werner OCist, President from 1924 to 1939
- Wendelin Endrédy OCist, President from 1939 to 1981
- Károly Kerekes OCist, President from 1987 to 1996
- Polikárp Zakar OCist, President from 1996 to 2010
- Sixtus Dékány OCist, President from 2011 to 2017
- Bernát Bérczi OCist, President since 2018
See also
Web links
- Website of the Cistercian Congregation in Zirc
- Our Lady of Dallas Abbey website
- Website of Nővérek Abbey
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "A Ciszterci Rend Zirci Kongregációja" , accessed on September 20, 2012 (Hungarian)