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The English Benedictine Congregation (EBC) is a congregation of autonomous abbatial and prioral monastic communities of Catholic Benedictine monks, nuns, and lay oblates. It is technically the oldest of the nineteen congregations affiliated to the Benedictine Confederation .
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Latin: ... In England there are also houses of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation: Farnborough, ...
The conquest of the Danelaw by West Saxon kings had united England in a single kingdom for the first time, enabling kings from Æthelstan onwards to see themselves as heirs of the Carolingian emperors; the regulation of monasteries by a uniform Benedictine Rule was designed to unite the kingdom ideologically and enhance royal prestige. [36]
Benedictine nuns founded 1078 by Judith, niece of William the Conqueror; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir Humphrey Radcliff c.1553; nave now in use as parish church The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Helena, Elstow: Grovebury Priory #, Leighton Buzzard: Fontévrault Benedictine monks and nuns, double house alien house: cell dependent on ...
Christ Mission Anglican Benedictines, Greensboro, North Carolina. A Dispersed Benedictine Monastic Community of both Brothers and Sisters. [7] St. Gregory's Abbey, Three Rivers, Michigan. Male order. Founded at Valparaiso, Indiana, 1939, as a dependency of Nashdom Abbey (England); resited to Three Rivers 1949; independent abbey 1969. [8]
Benedictine nunneries in England (1 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Benedictine monasteries in England" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total.
Downside Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in England and the senior community of the English Benedictine Congregation. Until 2019, the community had close links with Downside School, for the education of children aged 11 to 18. Both the abbey and the school are at Stratton-on-the-Fosse, between Westfield and Shepton Mallet in Somerset, South ...
The Tyburn Nuns, formally, Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre, is a Catholic congregation of Benedictine nuns.The congregation was originally founded in Paris but was obliged to find a new Mother House due to French legislation passed in 1901.