American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation, O.S.B.

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

1855: Established as American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation (English) / Amerikanisch-Cassinensische Benediktinerkongregation (Deutsch) / Congregazione Benedettina Americana Cassinese (Italiano) / O.S.B.

Superiors

President:

Abbot John Klassen, O.S.B. (75) (2020.04.15 – ...)

Past Superiors

President:	Abbot Elias Richard Lorenzo, O.S.B. (64) (later Bishop) (2016.06.23 – 2020.02.27)
President:	Abbot Hugh Anderson, O.S.B. (2010.06.17 – 2016.06.23)
President:	Abbot Timothy Thomas Kelly, O.S.B. (2001.06 – 2010.06.16)
President:	Abbot Melvin Valvano, O.S.B. (1989.06 – 2001.06)
President:	Abbot John Albert Eidenschink, O.S.B. (1983 – 1989.06)
President:	Abbot Martin Burne, O.S.B. (1971 – 1983)
President:	Abbot Baldwin Wilfred Dworschak, O.S.B. (1965 – 1971)
President:	Abbot Denis Strittmatter, O.S.B. (later Archabbot) (1953 – 1965)
President:	Abbot Mark Braun, O.S.B. (1944 – 1953)
President:	Abbot Alcuin Deutsch, O.S.B. (1932 – 1944)
President:	Abbot Ernest Helmstetter, O.S.B. (1914 – 1932)
President:	Abbot Peter Engel, O.S.B. (1902 – 1914)
President:	Abbot Innocent Wolf, O.S.B. (1896 – 1902)
President:	Bishop Leo Michael Haid, O.S.B. (1890 – 1896)
President:	Abbot Alexius Edelbrock, O.S.B. (1888 – 1890)
President:	Archabbot Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. (1855 – 1887.12.08)

Founder

Founder:

Abbot Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. (later Archabbot) (1855)

Other Former Members (11)

2024: Abbot Peter Wilfred Novecosky, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada)

2016: Abbot Edmund F. McCaffrey, O.S.B., Abbot nullius of Belmont–Mary Help of Christians (USA)

2008: Abbot Jerome Ferdinand Weber, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada)

2005: Abbot Jude George Cleary, O.S.B., Abbot nullius of Belmont–Mary Help of Christians (USA)

1999: Abbot Walter Arthur Coggin, O.S.B., Abbot nullius of Belmont–Mary Help of Christians (USA)

1995: Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen, O.S.B., Abbot Primate of Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines)

1976: Fr. Ulric Beste (Conrad), O.S.B., Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm

1960: Abbot Severinus Giacomo Gertken, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada)

1959: Abbot Vincent George Taylor, O.S.B., Abbot nullius of Belmont–Mary Help of Christians (USA)

1926: Abbot Michael Ott, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada)

1919: Abbot Bruno Doerfler, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada)

Living Bishops (2 Bishops)

Bishop Roger William Gries, O.S.B. (87), Titular Bishop of Præsidium and Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Cleveland (USA)

Bishop Elias Richard Lorenzo, O.S.B. (64), Titular Bishop of Tabuda and Auxiliary Bishop of Newark (USA)

Deceased Bishops (2 Archbishops, 8 Bishops)

2023: Bishop Joseph John Gerry, O.S.B., Bishop of Portland in Maine (USA)

2022: Archbishop Rembert George Weakland, O.S.B., Metropolitan Archbishop of Milwaukee (USA)

2018: Bishop Heriberto Hermes, O.S.B., Bishop-Prelate of Cristalândia (Brazil)

2017: Archbishop Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B., Metropolitan Archbishop of Dubuque (USA)

1990: Bishop Angelo Thomas Acerra, O.S.B., Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of United States of America (USA)

1986: Bishop Vladimir Ladislas Tarasevitch, O.S.B., Titular Bishop of Mariamme

1984: Bishop Paul Leonard Hagarty, O.S.B., Bishop of Nassau (Bahamas)

1924: Bishop Leo Michael Haid, O.S.B., Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina (USA) and Abbot nullius of Belmont–Mary Help of Christians (USA)

1904: Bishop Louis Mary Fink, O.S.B., Bishop of Leavenworth (USA)

1895: Bishop Rupert Seidenbusch, O.S.B., Vicar Apostolic of Northern Minnesota (USA)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Houses: 22

Members: 595 (345 priests)

Houses

Members

American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation (O.S.B.)