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Welcome to the new AIM website - The InterMonastery Alliance.
✅ The site is available in French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, English 🇬🇧, Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹.
🕐 The site will soon be available in Portuguese 🇵🇹.
New Abbot President
On October 7, 2025, at a meeting at Wilhering Abbey, Abbot Dr. Pius Maurer of Lilienfeld Abbey was elected as the new Abbot-President of...
Oct 91 min read
Election of the Abbot President for the Brazilian Congregation
On June 17, 2025, Dom Bento Gonçalves de Oliveira , OCist, Abbot of Nossa Senhora da Santa Cruz, in Itaporanga, was elected Abbot...
Jul 71 min read
Pope Leo XIV Addresses Vallombrosans
Pope Leo XIV welcomed the newly elected Abbot General and all participants to the General Chapter of the Vallombrosan Congregation on 28...
Jul 12 min read
The First Synod of Nuns of the Annunciation Congregation
From 1 to 8 June, the abbesses of five communities: Maredret (Belgium), Sovu (Rwanda), Zhytomyr (Ukraine) and Saint Lucia (online), as...
Jun 251 min read
400 Years of Austrian Congregation
On 30 May 2025, the Austrian Benedictine Congregation commenced its 400th anniversary celebrations with a pilgrimage to Mariazell...
Jun 31 min read
Election for the Sylvestrine Congregation
We are delighted to announce the election of Most Reverend Father Shamindra Jayawardena as the new Abbot General of the Sylvestrine...
Jun 31 min read
Fortaleza Monastery Joins the Benedictine Congregation of Brazil
The Monastery of São Bento in Fortaleza is now officially part of the Benedictine Congregation of Brazil. Founded by Dom Beda Pereira de...
Apr 62 min read
New Abbess President of the Congregation of Castille
On 28 March, during the celebration of the 9th Ordinary Chapter of the Congregation of Castile, Mother Eugenia Pablo was elected Abbess...
Apr 11 min read
Incorporation of Selingenthal
The monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Seligenthal has been incorporated by the Holy See into the Congregation of Saint Gertrude the...
Mar 111 min read
Press from Abbot President of Subiaco Congregation
On 14 November 2024, I made a fraternal visit to the Abbey of Keizersberg in the context of the canonical visitation that had been open...
Mar 33 min read
New Abbot President of St Ottilien Congregation
The General Chapter of the Congregation of Sankt Ottilien, meeting at Waegwan Abbey (South Korea), has elected Father Javier Aparacio...
Jan 181 min read
Austrian Congregation re-elects Johannes Perkmann as president
This past week the Austrian Benedictine Congregation held its General Chapter in the Abbey of Göttweig. Göttweig, spectacularly situated...
Oct 28, 20241 min read
New Generalate for the Tutzing Congregation
After the election of the new Prioress General on October 8, the General Councillors were elected on October 9. The new generalate...
Oct 13, 20241 min read
New Abbot President
During the Sept. 5 plenary session of the XXI General Chapter, Dom Ignasi M. Fossas, monk of Montserrat, has been elected as the new...
Sep 9, 20241 min read
General Chapter
The Subiaco-Cassinaise congregation is meeting for its 21st General Chapter from 30 August to 7 September 2024 at Montserrat Abbey. See...
Sep 5, 20241 min read
Polish Congregation
On August 22, 2024, on the Patronal feast of the Blessed Virgin, Mary Queen of Heaven, in the abbey of Wąchock, the Congregation of...
Sep 3, 20241 min read
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