top of page
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 at Kremsmünster Abbey
On 25 January 2025, the community of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster elected a new abbot. Abbot Bernhard Eckerstorfer succeeds...
Jan 272 min read
New Abbot at Novo Mundo
On 20 January 2025, the community of Novo Mundo (Diocese of São José dos Pinhais, Brazil) elected Father Estêvao Nery Fantesia Pinto as...
Jan 211 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
New Abbot at Göttweig
On 8 January, Fr. Patrick Schöder OSB was elected as the new abbot of Göttweig Benedictine Abbey. He succeeds Abbot Columban Luser as the...
Jan 102 min read
Election at Hinojo
On 1st January 2025, at the end of her fifth abbatial mandate, Mother María Marcenaro was re-elected Abbess of the Hinojo monastery...
Jan 41 min read
New abbot at Maredsous
On Thursday 19 December 2024, the community of Maredsous (Belgium) elected Father François Lear as its 9th abbot. Dom François Lear was...
Dec 20, 20241 min read
Monthly news from Abbot Primate
Elections and nominations At the abbey of Pluscarden (Scotland, Subiaco-Cassinese Congregation), Fr Simon Piatkowski was installed as...
Dec 6, 20242 min read
New Abbot at Inkamana
On 30 November 2024, the community of Inkamana in South Africa has elected for an unlimited period Fr. Boniface Kamushishi as their...
Dec 4, 20241 min read
New Prioress at Norfolk
Sr. Gabrielle Marie Oestreich was elected on November 30, 2024 during the Norfolk Priory Election Chapter, which Sr. Rosann Ocken,...
Dec 2, 20241 min read
New prioress in Manila
On November 20, 2024 during the Manila Priory Election Chapter, which Sr. Mary Thomas Prado, the outgoing prioress of Manila and Vicaress...
Nov 26, 20241 min read
New abbot at Phare Abbey
On 28 October 2024, the community of Phase (Diocese of Sapporo, Japan) elected Dom Franciscus Yoshimoto Kunihiko as Abbot for a six-years...
Oct 28, 20241 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 prioress at Bristow
Saint Benedict Monastery elected its twelfth Prioress, Sister Andrea Westkampf. The election process was facilitated by Sr. Elaine...
Oct 21, 20241 min read
Election at Kunnambetta
On October 7, 2024, the foundation of Ananda Matha Ashram, Kunnambetta, in the diocese of Calicut (India) was raised to the rank of...
Oct 7, 20241 min read
New abbot at Stams Abbey
On 12 September 2024, the community of Stams Abbey (Austria) elected Father Cyrill Greiter as the community's 45th abbot. Until now,...
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Election of the new Abbot Primate
On 14 September 2024, Abbot Jeremias Schröder OSB, of St. Ottilien Archabbey in Eresing, Germany, was elected abbot primate of the...
Sep 14, 20242 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 10, 20241 min read
New Prior in Kasanza
On 1st September 2024, the community of Kasanza (Diocese of Kikwit, R. D. Congo) elected Dom Léonard Zibula as Titular Prior of the...
Sep 1, 20241 min read
New Abboy of the Noci Abbey
On 9 August 2024, Father Paolo Maria Gionta was elected Abbot of the Abbey of Noci (Italy). Father Paolo Maria was previously Procurator...
Aug 10, 20241 min read
Genesee Abbey
Dom Gerard D’Souza completed his second term of six-years as Abbot of Our Lady of the Genesee Abbey (diocese of Rochester, USA). On June...
Jun 13, 20241 min read
bottom of page