English Benedictine Congregation

English Benedictine Congregation
AbbreviationPost-nominal letters O.S.B.
NicknameEBC
Formation1216
TypeBenedictines
HeadquartersEngland
Region served
Australia, Ireland, Peru, Sweden, UK, United States, Zimbabwe
Members
19 monastic communities; 268 monks and nuns (2022 figures)
Abbot President
Christopher Jamison
Parent organization
Roman Catholic Church; Order of St Benedict; Benedictine Confederation
Websitewww.benedictines.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

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.


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