English Benedictine Congregation (E.B.C.)

Also known as: Congrégation bénédictine anglaise (français) / Congregazione Benedettina d’Inghilterra (Italiano) / Congregatio Angliae

Type: Monastic Order of Pontifical Right (for Men)

Confederation: Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines)

Depends on: Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life

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History

1336: Established as English Benedictine Congregation (English) / Congrégation bénédictine anglaise (français) / Congregazione Benedettina d’Inghilterra (Italiano) / Congregatio Angliae / E.B.C.

Contact Info

Address: Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, England

Phone: (01761) 235-121

Superiors

President:

Abbot Christopher Jamison, E.B.C. (73) (2017.08.01 – ...)

Past Superiors

President:	Abbot Richard Yeo, E.B.C. (2001.07.13 – 2017.08.01)
President:	Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet, E.B.C. (later Cardinal) (1900.09.26 – 1908?)

Other Former Members (1)

>2009: Fr. Mark Sheridan, E.B.C., Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm

Deceased Bishops (5 Cardinals, 1 Archbishop, 4 Bishops)

2025: Bishop John Mark Jabalé, E.B.C., Bishop of Menevia (Wales)

2011: Bishop Michael Ambrose Griffiths, E.B.C., Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (England)

1999: Cardinal George Basil Hume, E.B.C., Cardinal-Priest of S. Silvestro in Capite and Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster (England)

1990: Bishop Knut Ansgar Nelson, E.B.C., Bishop of Stockholm (Sweden)

1986: Bishop Basil Christopher Butler, E.B.C., Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England)

1931: Archbishop James Romanus Bilsborrow, E.B.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Cardiff (Wales)

1929: Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet, E.B.C., Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Portico pro hac vice Title, President of Pontifical Commission for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate, Librarian of Vatican Apostolic Library and Archivist of Vatican Secret Archives

1398: Cardinal Adam Easton, E.B.C., Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia

1376: Cardinal Simon Langham, E.B.C., Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and Metropolitan Archbishop of Canterbury (England)

1181: Cardinal Boso Breakspear, E.B.C., Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera

England

Church of St Michael and All Angels, Belmont, Herefordshire
Downside Abbey of St Gregory the Great, Stratton on the Fosse, Somerset
Ampleforth Abbey of St Lawrence the Martyr, York, North Yorkshire
Buckfast Abbey of St Mary, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Church of Our Lady of Peace and Blessed Robert Dibdale, Shottery, Warwickshire
Church of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Hereford, Herefordshire
Church of St Bede, Kington, Herefordshire
Church of St Benedict, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset
Church of St Joseph, Hoghton, Lancashire
Church of St Wulstan, Little Malvern, Worcestershire
Douai Abbey of St Edmund the Martyr, Woolhampton, West Berkshire
Ealing Abbey, London, Ealing
Oulton Abbey of St Mary, Oulton, Staffordshire
Worth Abbey of Our Lady, Help of Christians, Crawley, West Sussex

Northern Ireland

Monastery of the Holy Cross, Rostrevor, Down

USA

Abbatial Church of St. Gregory, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Abbey of St. Anselm, Washington, District of Columbia
Abbey of St. Louis and St. Mary, Creve Coeur, Missouri
Church of St. Anselm, Creve Coeur, Missouri
Oratory of St. Gregory the Great and St. Augustine of Canterbury, Creve Coeur, Missouri

Wales

Church of St Mary and St Michael, Llanarth, Monmouthshire

Statistics (2023.12.31)

Houses: 12

Members: 193 (158 priests)

Last updated on 2025.12.21

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