American-Cassinese Congregation

Founded 1855, the American-Cassinese Congregation is a Catholic association of Benedictine monasteries in the Benedictine Confederation

The Congregation consists of 20 independent monasteries with houses or dependencies in 16 of the United States, Puerto Rico, and in six other countries on three continents.

Abbot Boniface Wimmer OSB, founder of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, created the Congregation. Pope Pius IX erected it as a monastic congregation under the patronage of the Holy Guardian Angels^[1].

The monasteries of the Congregation follow the Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia (480-547).

Monasteries in the Congregation

Founded from Metten Abbey, Bavaria

Arranged by History of Foundation:^[2]

• St. Vincent Archabbey (1846) Latrobe, Pennsylvania
  • Benedictine Priory (1877), Savannah, Georgia
  • Mosteiro de São Bento (1650; dep. 1964), Vinhedo, Brazil
  • Wimmer Priory (1964), Taiwan, China
• St. John's Abbey (1856) Collegeville, Minnesota
  • St. Martin's (1895) Lacey, Washington
  • Abadía del Tepeyac (1946) Tlalnepantla, Mexico
  • (St. Maur Priory (1947; 1990-2004 dep. Newark) Indianapolis, Indiana - suppressed.)
  • (St. Augustine Monastery (1947) Nassau, Bahamas, suppressed in 2005.)
  • Abadía de San Antonio Abad (1947) Humacao, Puerto Rico
  • Trinity Benedictine Monastery, Fujimi, Japan
• St. Benedict's Abbey (1857) Atchison, Kansas
  • Mosteiro São Jose (1962), Mineiros, Goias, Brazil
• St. Mary's Abbey, New Jersey (1857) Morristown, New Jersey
  • Saint Anselm Abbey (1889) Goffstown, New Hampshire
    • Woodside Priory (1957; dep. 1976-)
• Newark Abbey (1857) Newark, New Jersey
  • (St. Maur Priory (1947 SJA; 1990-2004 dep.) Indianapolis, Indiana - suppressed.)
• Belmont Abbey (1876) Belmont, North Carolina
  • Saint Leo Abbey (1889) St. Leo, Florida
• St. Procopius Abbey (1885) Lisle, Illinois
  • St. Andrew (1922) Cleveland, Ohio
  • (Holy Trinity Priory (1948; indep. monastery, 1955) Butler, Pennsylvania - sui juris, 1 October 2006)
  • Benedictine Priory (1966) Chiayi, Taiwan, RC
• Holy Cross (1886) Cañon City, Colorado, suppressed in 2005
• St. Bernard Abbey (1891) Cullman, Alabama
• St. Bede Abbey (1891) Peru, Illinois
• St. Peter Abbey(1892) Muenster, Saskatchewan
• Mary Mother of the Church (1911) Richmond, Virginia
• St. Gregory's Abbey(1875 PIERRE-QUI-VIRE) Shawnee, Oklahoma
• Assumption (1893 EINSIEDELN) Richardton, North Dakota
  • Monasterio Benedictino de Tibati, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
• Mount Saviour (1950) Pine City, New York

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