Also known as: Orden der Zisterzienser von der strengeren Observanz (Trappisten) (Deutsch) / Orden Cisterciense de la Estrecha Observancia (Trapenses) (español) / Ordre cistercien de la stricte observance (Trappistes) (français) / Ordine dei Cistercensi della Stretta Osservanza (Trappisti) (Italiano) / Zakon Cystersów Ściślejszej Obserwancji (Trapiści) (polski) / Ordem dos Cistercienses Reformados de Estrita Observância (Trapistas) (Português) / 嚴規熙篤隱修會 (正體中文) / 厳律シト一会 (日本語) / Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiæ (latine)
Type: Monastic Order of Pontifical Right (for Men)
Depends on: Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life
Address: Viale Africa 33, 00144 Roma, Italy
Phone: 06.592.41.55
Abbot General: | Abbot Bernardus Peeters, O.C.S.O. (55) (2022.02.11 – ...) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Eamon Fitzgerald, O.C.S.O. (2008.09.08 – 2022.02.11) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Bernardo Luis José Olivera, O.C.S.O. (81) (1990.09.08 – 2008.09.08) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Ambrose Southey, O.C.S.O. (1974.05.07 – 1990) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Ignace Gillet, O.C.S.O. (1964 – 1974) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Gabriel Sortais, O.C.S.O. (1951 – 1963.11.13) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Dominique Nogues, O.C.S.O. (1946 – 1951) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Herman-Joseph Smets, O.C.S.O. (1929 – 1943) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Jean-Baptiste Ollitraut de Kéryvallan, O.C.S.O. (1922 – 1929) |
Abbot General: | Bishop Augustin Marre, O.C.S.O. (later Archbishop) (1904 – 1922) |
Abbot General: | Abbot Sébastien Wyart, O.C.S.O. (1892 – 1904) |
Founder: | Fr. Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé, O.C.S.O. (1664) |
>2018: Fr. Jean de Dieu Hodari, O.C.S.O., General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Rwanda |
Archbishop Lorenzo Voltolini Esti, O.C.S.O. (76), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Portoviejo (Ecuador) |
Bishop Noël Delaquis, O.C.S.O. (89), Titular Bishop of Gravelbourg and Bishop emeritus of Gravelbourg (Canada) |
Bishop Yvon-Joseph Moreau, O.C.S.O. (83), Bishop emeritus of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Canada) |
Bishop Placidus Pei Rong-guì (裴榮貴), O.C.S.O. (89), Bishop emeritus of Luoyang 洛陽 (China) |
Bishop Lode Van Hecke, O.C.S.O. (74), Bishop of Gent (Belgium) |
Bishop Erik Varden, O.C.S.O. (50), Bishop-Prelate of Trondheim (Norway), President of Scandinavian Episcopal Conference and Apostolic Administrator of Tromsø (Norway) |
2022: Bishop Édouard Mununu Kasiala, O.C.S.O., Bishop of Kikwit (Congo-Kinshasa) |
2008: Bishop John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O., Bishop of Oslo (Norway) |
1978: Archbishop Guido Luigi Bentivoglio, O.C.S.O., Archbishop of Catania (Italy) |
1927: Archbishop Augustin Marre, O.C.S.O., Auxiliary Bishop of Reims (France) |
1874: Bishop James Michael Myles O’Gorman, O.C.S.O., Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska (USA) |
1865: Bishop Timothy Clement Smyth, O.C.S.O., Bishop of Dubuque (USA) |
1938: Saint Rafael Arnáiz Barón, religious |
1916: Saint Charles de Jésus (Charles Eugène de Foucauld), priest |
1996: Blessed Christian de Chergé, priest and martyr |
1996: Blessed Christophe Lebreton, priest and martyr |
1996: Blessed Bruno (Christian Lemarchand), priest and martyr |
1996: Blessed Célestin Ringeard, priest and martyr |
1996: Blessed Luc (Paul Dochier), religious and martyr |
1996: Blessed Michel Fleury, religious and martyr |
1996: Blessed Paul Favre-Miville, religious and martyr |
1964: Blessed Cipriano (Michael Iwene Tansi), priest |
1936: Blessed Eugenio García Pampliega, priest and martyr |
1936: Blessed Vicente Pastor Garrido, priest and martyr |
1936: Blessed Pío Heredia Zubía, priest and martyr |
1936: Blessed Amadeo García Rodríguez, priest and martyr |
1936: Blessed Valeriano Rodríguez García, priest and martyr |
1936: Blessed Juan Bautista Ferris Llopis, priest and martyr |
1936: Blessed Álvaro González López, religious and martyr |
1936: Blessed Eustaquio García Chicote, religious and martyr |
1936: Blessed Ángel de la Vega González, religious and martyr |
1936: Blessed Ezequiel Álvaro de la Fuente, religious and martyr |
1936: Blessed Eulogio Álvarez López, religious and martyr |
1936: Blessed Leandro Gómez Gil, religious and martyr |
1936: Blessed Antonio Delgado González, layperson and martyr |
1936: Blessed Bienvenido Mata Ubierna, layperson and martyr |
1936: Blessed Marcelino Martín Rubio, layperson and martyr |
1903: Blessed Marie-Joseph (Pierre-Joseph Cassant), priest |
1794: Blessed Gervais-Protais Brunel, priest and martyr |
1794: Blessed Paul (Paul-Jean Charles), priest and martyr |
1794: Blessed Élie (Augustin-Joseph Desgardin), religious and martyr |
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