Gregory Polan elected 10th Abbot Primate of the Benedictines

[OraLabora]

Deo gratias, Benedictines have a new Abbot Primate to replace Dom Notker Wolf who ended his 3d mandate as Abbot Primate yesterday.

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Father Gregory Polan, 66, until now, Abbot of Conception Abbey, has been elected the 10th Abbot Primate, succeeding Abbot Notker Wolf who has served in the position of Abbot Primate since being elected by the Congress of Abbots on 7 September 2000.

Abbot Gregory has been the 9th Abbot of Conception since November 6, 1996. He was professed in 1971 and ordained in 1977. He is a native of Berwyn, Illinois.

Abbot Gregory is the second abbot of Conception Abbey to be elected Abbot Primate. Abbot Marcel Rooney was the 8th Primate having been elected on September 18, 1996 and resigned on 3 September 2000. He is the 4th American to serve as the Abbot Primate.

According to the Proper Law which governs the Confederation of Congregations of Monasteries of the Order of Saint Benedict speaks of the ministry of the Primas as “the office of the Abbot Primate whose function it is to represent the Confederation and to do all he can to foster co-operation between the confederated monasteries.”

Dom Polan is well known in the monastery I am affiliated with, having attended there numerous times when he was a student in Ottawa, and having preached the retreat in French at our sister abbey of Ste-Marie-des-Deux-Montagnes, and also in English at its foundation, Westfield Priory in Vermont.

 

[pianistclare]

Congratulations and many prayers!!!

 

[UnumCorpus]

I was actually in contact with Abbot Gregory a few years ago. He was a very intelligent and patient correspondent, taking time out of his busy schedule to answer some theological questions I had.

So I am glad to hear the news. Congratulations to him!

 

[Don_Ruggero]

Deo gratias.