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Houses of the English Benedictine Congregation

Current houses

United Kingdom:

NameMonks or nunsFoundedCurrent locationPrevious locations
Downside AbbeyMonks1607Stratton-on-the-Fosse, SomersetDouai, Flanders/France, 1607-1794; Acton Burnell, Shropshire, 1794-1814.[1]
Ampleforth AbbeyMonks1608Ampleforth, North YorkshireDieulouard, France, 1608-1798; ETC.
Douai AbbeyMonks1615Woolhampton, BerkshireParis, France, 1615-1798; Douai, France 1818-1903.[2]
Stanbrook AbbeyNuns1625Callow End, WorcestershireCambrai, Flanders, 1625-1793; Woolton, Lancashire 1795-1807; Evesham, Worcestershire 1807-1838.[3]
Colwich AbbeyNuns1651Colwich, StaffordshireParis, France, 1651-1794; Marnhull, Dorset 1795-1807; Cannington, Somerset 1807-1836.[4]
Belmont AbbeyMonks1859Belmont, Herefordshire
Curzon Park AbbeyNuns1868Curzon Park, Cheshire;;;Talacre, Flintshire, 1920-1988
Buckfast AbbeyMonks1882Buckfastleigh, Devon
Ealing AbbeyMonks1897Ealing, Greater London
Worth AbbeyMonks1933Turners Hill, West Sussex

United States:

NameMonks or nunsFoundedCurrent location
Portsmouth AbbeyMonks1918Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Saint Anselm's AbbeyMonks1923Washington, D.C.
St. Louis AbbeyMonks1955St. Louis, Missouri

Notable members of the community

In the nineteenth century several monks were instrumental in the development of the Catholic Church within the British Empire, and particularly Australia. William Placid Morris, a monk of the community, was appointed Vicar Apostolic for Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar in 1832,[5] and as such his jurisdiction embraced a substantial part of the British Empire, including Mauritius and its dependencies; these depdencies included, at that time, all of Australia as well as New Zealand. While Vicar Apostolic, he invited William Bernard Ullathorne, another member of the community,


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