Subiaco Cassinese Benedictine Congregation (O.S.B.)
Also known as: Congrégation de Subiaco–Mont Cassin (français) / Congregazione Sublacense Cassinese dell'Ordine di San Benedetto (Italiano) / Congregatio Sublacensis Casinensis (latine)
Type: Monastic Order of Pontifical Right (for Men)
Confederation: Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines)
Depends on: Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life
Statistics: 79 houses, 1,260 members (500 priests) (2020)
1872: Established as Subiaco Benedictine Congregation (English) / Sublazenser Kongregation (Deutsch) / Congregazione Benedettina Sublacense (Italiano) / Congregatio Sublacensis (latine) / O.S.B. Subl.
2013.02.07: Renamed as Subiaco Cassinese Benedictine Congregation (English) / Congrégation de Subiaco–Mont Cassin (français) / Congregazione Sublacense Cassinese dell'Ordine di San Benedetto (Italiano) / Congregatio Sublacensis Casinensis (latine) / O.S.B. (merged with the suppressed Cassinese Benedictine Congregation)
Superiors
President: Abbot Guillermo Leon Arboleda Tamayo, O.S.B. (66) (2016.09.22 – ...)
President: Abbot Bruno Marin, O.S.B. (2004.09.14 – 2016.09.22)
President: Abbot Thierry Portevin, O.S.B. Subl. (1996 – 2004)
President: Abbot Gilbert Jones, O.S.B. Subl. (1988 – 1996)
President: Abbot Denis Huerre, O.S.B. Subl. (1980 – 1988)
President: Abbot Mauro Elizondo, O.S.B. Subl. (1978 – 1980)
President: Abbot Gabriel Brasó i Tulla, O.S.B. Subl. (1966 – 1978)
President: Abbot Pietro Celestino Gusi, O.S.B. Subl. (1959 – 1966)
President: Abbot Emanuele Caronti, O.S.B. Subl. (1937 – 1959)
President: Abbot Maur Etcheverry, O.S.B. Subl. (1928 – 1937)
President: Abbot Benoît Gariador, O.S.B. Subl. (1920 – 1928)
President: Abbot Mauro Serafini, O.S.B. Subl. (1900 – 1920)
President: Abbot Domenico Serafini, O.S.B. Subl. (later Cardinal) (1896.06.05 – 1900.04.16)
President: Abbot Romaric Flugi d'Aspermont, O.S.B. Subl. (1890 – 1896)
President: Bishop Jordan Ballsieper, O.S.B. Subl. (1888 – 1890.02.01)
President: Abbot Nicola Canevello, O.S.B. Subl. (1880 – 1888)
President: Abbot Raffaele Testa, O.S.B. Subl. (1876 – 1880)
Founder: Abbot Pietro Francesco Casaretto, O.S.B. Subl. (1872)
President: Abbot Pietro Francesco Casaretto, O.S.B. Subl. (1867.08.05 – 1876.04.01)
Living Bishops (1 Archbishop, 2 Bishops)
Archbishop Francesco Pio Tamburrino, O.S.B. Subl. (84), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Foggia–Bovino (Italy)
Bishop Hugh Edward Gilbert, O.S.B. (70), Bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland) and President of Bishops' Conference of Scotland
Bishop Manuel Nin, O.S.B. (66), Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece) and Titular Bishop of Carcabia
Other Present Prelates (5)
Abbot Francesco De Feo, O.S.B. (47), Hegumen of Italian Basilian Order of Grottaferrata and Hegumen of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata of the Italo-Albanese (Italy)
Abbot Antonio Luca Fallica, O.S.B. (63), Abbot Ordinary of Montecassino (Italy)
Abbot Riccardo Luca Guariglia, O.S.B. (55), Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
Abbot Mauro Meacci, O.S.B. (67), Abbot Ordinary of Subiaco (Italy)
Abbot Michele Petruzzelli, O.S.B. (61), Abbot Ordinary of Santissima Trinità di Cava de' Tirreni (Italy)
Saints (20 blesseds)
1937: Blessed Roberto (Joan Grau Bullich), priest and martyr
1937: Blessed Pedro Vallmitjana Abarca, priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Ángel María Rodamilans Canals, priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Odilio María (Joan Costa Canal), priest and martyr
1936: Blessed José María Fontseré Masdéu, priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Domingo (Cipriano González Millán), priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Juan Roca Boch, priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Ambrosio María (Agustí Busquets Creixell), priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Plácido María (Càndid Feliu Soler), priest and martyr
1936: Blessed León Gonzaga (León Alesanco Maestro), priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Luis Palacios Lozano, priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Fulgencio (Josep Albareda Ramoneda), priest and martyr
1936: Blessed Bernardo (Jaume Vendrell Olivella), religious and martyr
1936: Blessed Francisco María Sánchez, religious and martyr
1936: Blessed Ildefonso (Aleix Civil Castellví), religious and martyr
1936: Blessed José María Jordá Jordá, religious and martyr
1936: Blessed Narciso María (Pere Vilar Espona), religious and martyr
1936: Blessed Hildebrando María (Lluis Casanovas Vila), religious and martyr
1936: Blessed Eugenio María (José Erausquin Aramburu), religious and martyr
1936: Blessed Emiliano María (Ignasi Guilà Ximenes), religious and martyr
Deceased Bishops (2 Cardinals, 1 Archbishop, 10 Bishops)
2020: Bishop Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B., Bishop of Reggio Emilia–Guastalla (Italy)
2017: Bishop Fulgence Werner Le Roy, O.S.B. Subl., Bishop of Pietersburg (South Africa)
2004: Archbishop Andrea Mariano Magrassi, O.S.B. Subl., Metropolitan Archbishop of Bari–Bitonto (Italy) and Pontifical Delegate for the Basilica of Saint Nicholas of Bari
2003: Bishop Benito Stanislao Andreotti, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Subiaco (Italy)
1976: Bishop Francis Clement van Hoeck, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Pietersburg (South Africa)
1966: Cardinal Joaquín Anselmo María Albareda, O.S.B. Subl., Cardinal-Deacon of S. Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine and Prefect of Vatican Apostolic Library
1964: Bishop Simone Lorenzo Salvi, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Subiaco (Italy)
1960: Bishop Frederic Osterrath, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Pietersburg (South Africa)
1918: Cardinal Domenico Serafini, O.S.B. Subl., Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia, Archbishop of Spoleto (Italy) and Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith
1914: Bishop Fulgentius Torres, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of New Norcia (Australia) and Ecclesiastical Superior of Drisdale River (Australia)
1913: Bishop Vittore Corvaia, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
1900: Bishop Rosendo Salvado, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of New Norcia (Australia)
1890: Bishop Jordan Ballsieper, O.S.B. Subl., Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh) and President of Subiaco Benedictine Congregation
Other Former Prelates (18)
>2023: Abbot Donato Ogliari, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Montecassino (Italy)
2018: Abbot Tarciscio Giovanni Nazzaro, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
>2018: Abbot Théodore Coco, O.S.B., President of Regional Union of Conferences of Major Superiors of Francophone West Africa (U.R.C.A.O.)
>2014: Abbot Beda Umberto Paluzzi, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
>2013: Fr. Leone Morinelli, O.S.B., Apostolic Administrator of Santissima Trinità di Cava de' Tirreni (Italy)
2002: Fr. Godfrey Leo Diekmann, O.S.B.
1995: Abbot Gregory Gomez, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of New Norcia (Australia)
1989: Abbot Tommaso Agostino Gubitosa, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
>1980: Abbot Bernard Rooney, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of New Norcia (Australia)
1974: Abbot Luigi Egidio Gavazzi, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Subiaco (Italy)
1968: Abbot Anselmo Ludovico Tranfaglia, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
1952: Abbot Giuseppe Ramiro Marcone, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
1951: Abbot Anselmo Federico Catalán, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of New Norcia (Australia) and Ecclesiastical Superior of Drisdale River (Australia)
1941: Fr. Ildefonso Lanslots, O.S.B. Subl., Prefect Apostolic of Northern Transvaal (South Africa)
1939: Fr. Salvatore van Nuffel, O.S.B. Subl., Prefect Apostolic of Northern Transvaal (South Africa)
1884: Abbot Guglielmo de Cesare, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)
>1875: Abbot Hildebrand Marie Dell'Oro di Giosuè, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of Saints-Nicholas-et-Benoît (Monaco)
>1874: Abbot Léandre de Dou, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of Saints-Nicholas-et-Benoît (Monaco)