Abbreviation | Post-nominal letters O.S.B. |
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Nickname | EBC |
Formation | 1216 |
Type | Benedictines |
Headquarters | England |
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 |
Website | www |
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.