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Each congregation constitutes, according to the canon law, an order with its own statutes (contitutions and declarations) and an abbot president is its general superior. A superior of an independent house (an abbot or conventual prior) is a high monastic superior. His rank corresponds with a position of a provincial in other orders. Congregations comprise monasteries within the countries (often with monasteries set up in other territories) or those which are a reminder of separate orders based on the Rule of St. Benedict (Olivetans, Vallombrosans, Camaldoleses, Silvesterines; from among Camaldoleses not all congregations belong to the Benedictine federation – Monta Corona congregation comprising Polish houses stays outside). At the beginning of 2000 the federation comprised about 8400 members; in comparison with 1995 the number decreased by about 250 people. Benedictine congregations belonging to the Federation
Some good Benedictine Web sites: St. Anselm College - http://www.ans.urbe.it/Inglesendx.html |
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Men`s communities living according to the Rule of St. Benedict were not at first (since the 6th century) united into a formal order. Later they created congregations applying a similar intrpretation of the Rule and similar habits. In 1893 a Benedictine federation (confoederatio benedictina), came into being, which comprises nowadays 21 cogregations and a few communities outside congregations. An abbot- primate takes the lead of it; he lives in St. Anselm Abbey and College in Rome (Piazza Cavalieri di Malta5), since 2000 Notker Wolf from the German missionary congregation of St. Ottilia, who is an honorary superior and representative of the fedration.
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