Benedictine Monastery of Norcia Becomes an Abbey

The Roman Rite Benedictine monastery of Norcia, Italy, founded 25 years ago, has been canonically raised to the status of an abbey, the monks have announced.

The current prior, Dom Benedict Nivakoff, was elected abbot on 28 May. He is the first abbot of Norcia since 1792, when another monk bearing the name of St Benedict, Abbot Benedetto Cipriani, died.

Father Cassian Folsom, the founder of the Benedictine monks of Norcia, Italy, first experienced Mass in the 1990s when he visited the Roman Rite monastery of Le Barroux in France. The community is growing and the buildings are being extended.

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