American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation
Founded 1855, the American-Cassinese Congregation is a Catholic association of Benedictine monasteries in the Benedictine Confederation.
The Congregation includes 25 monasteries; 19 are autonomous monasteries and 6 are dependent priories located in 15 of the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Mexico and Taiwan.
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.
The monasteries of the Congregation follow the Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia.Monasteries in the Congregation
Founded from Metten Abbey, Bavaria
Arranged by History of Foundation:
- St. Vincent Archabbey Latrobe, Pennsylvania
- *Benedictine Priory, Savannah, Georgia
- *Mosteiro de São Bento, Vinhedo, Brazil
- *Wimmer Priory, Taiwan, Republic of China
- St. John's Abbey Collegeville, Minnesota
- *St. Martin Lacey, Washington
- *Abadía del Tepeyac Tlalnepantla, Mexico
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- *Abadía de San Antonio Abad Humacao, Puerto Rico
- *Trinity Benedictine Monastery, Fujimi, Japan
- St. Benedict Abbey Atchison, Kansas
- *Mosteiro São Jose, Mineiros, Goias, Brazil
- St. Mary Abbey, New Jersey Morristown, New Jersey
- *Saint Anselm Abbey Goffstown, New Hampshire
- **Woodside Priory
- Newark Abbey Newark, New Jersey
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- Belmont Abbey Belmont, North Carolina
- *Saint Leo Abbey St. Leo, Florida
- St. Procopius Abbey Lisle, Illinois
- *St. Andrew Cleveland, Ohio
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- *Benedictine Priory Chiayi, Taiwan, RC
- Holy Cross Cañon City, Colorado, suppressed in 2005
- St. Bernard Abbey Cullman, Alabama
- St. Bede Abbey Peru, Illinois
- St. Peter Abbey Muenster, Saskatchewan
- Mary Mother of the Church Richmond, Virginia
- St. Gregory Abbey Shawnee, Oklahoma
- Assumption Richardton, North Dakota
- *Monasterio Benedictino de Tibati, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
- Mount Saviour Pine City, New York
