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Welcome to the new AIM website - The InterMonastery Alliance.
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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
Benedictine news
During an extraordinary General Chapter in Waegwan, Korea, the Congregation of St. Ottilien elected a new abbot president on 18 January....
Jan 272 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
Perpetual Professions in South Korea
On Wednesday 15 January 2025, Sister Johanna Lee will make her perpetual profession at the Priory of Daegu (South Korea) in the...
Jan 101 min read
Data Report, OSB Atlas
By Fr. Patrick Carter, secretary to the abbot primate The Curia of the Benedictine Confederation often receives calls or emails...
Jan 61 min read
Archabbot Cirill T. Hortobágyi Leads Ecumenical Delegation
Archabbot Cirill T. Hortobágyi OSB, abbot president of the Hungarian Benedictine Congregation and archabbot of Pannonhalma, recently led...
Dec 30, 20241 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
Prospectus — Catalogus 2025
This year, we’re introducing a new development as we prepare for the Catalogus 2025: collaboration with some sisters from the Communio...
Dec 2, 20241 min read
New Prior of Sant’Anselmo
Shortly after his election in September, Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder appointed Fr. Brendan Coffey, abbot emeritus of Glenstal Abbey...
Nov 29, 20242 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
Abbot Primate’s circular letter
The Benedictine Confederation’s Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder is now sharing his circular letters publicly. Traditionally sent only to...
Nov 4, 20241 min read
Anniversary at Montecassino
Montecassino, the ancient father house of the Benedictines, remembered an important event last Thursday, 24 October. Sixty years ago on...
Oct 29, 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
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 14, 20241 min read
Profession of sisters in Ndanda
On 14 September 2024, the Feast of the Glorious Cross, Sister Neema Adyuti Mkolokoti, Sister Hildegard John Shayo, Sister Victoria...
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
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