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Welcome to the new AIM website - The InterMonastery Alliance.
✅ The site is available in French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, English 🇬🇧, Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹.
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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 3, 20251 min read
New Abbot at Rochefort
Dom Dom Gilbert Degros, abbot of Rochefort (Diocese of Namur, Belgium) since 2006, reached the age of retirement mentioned in ST 40.A of...
Jun 1, 20251 min read
New abbot at Chau Son Nho Quan
On May 15, the Chau Son Nho Quan community of the Congregation of the Holy Family in Vietnam elected Fr. Dominic Tran Tien Thieu as their...
Jun 1, 20251 min read
New Abbess at Glencairn
On 31 May 2025, Mother Marie Fahy completed her fourth six-year term as Abbess of Glencairn (Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland)....
Jun 1, 20251 min read
Election at Cardeña
On May 7, 2025, Dom Roberto de la Iglesia completed his second term of six years as Abbot of Cardeña (Archdiocese of Burgos, Spain). On...
May 8, 20251 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 1, 20251 min read
New archabbot in Salzburg
On Saturday, 15 February 2025, the monks of Saint Peter’s Archabbey (Austria)gathered to elect a new archabbot. New elections are...
Mar 1, 20251 min read
Re-election of the abbot of the Seitenstetten abbey
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025, the community of Seitenstetten Abbey (Austria), chaired by Abbot President Johannes Perkmann, re-elected...
Feb 27, 20251 min read
New abbot at En-Calcat
On Friday 7 February 2025, the Benedictine monks of En-Calcat (France) elected Father Maximilien Pietrzak abbot of the community....
Feb 25, 20251 min read
Election in Sorá
On 19 February 2025, the community of Sorá (Archdiocese of Panama, Panama) elected Mother Fabiana Barrera as Titular Prioress of the...
Feb 20, 20251 min read
Election of the Abbot of Huerta
On 17th February 2025, at the end of his fifth abbatial mandate, Dom Isidoro Anguita Fontecha was re-elected Abbot of the Abbey of Santa...
Feb 17, 20251 min read
New abbess at Frauenthal
On February 12, 2025 the community of Frauenthal (Switzerland) elected Sr. Bede Berg as their new abbess. Let us thank God for this...
Feb 17, 20251 min read
Election of the Abbess at Wrentham
On 11th February 2025, at the end of her first abbatial mandate, Mother Sofia Millican was re-elected Abbess of Mount St. Mary’s Abbey,...
Feb 12, 20251 min read
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 27, 20252 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 21, 20251 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 18, 20251 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 10, 20252 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 4, 20251 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
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