The Slavonic Benedictine Congregation

Abstract

Since 1776, the Benedictine Convent of Komárno was a House of the Hungarian Benedictine Congregation (established in 1514). After the creation of the Slavonic Benedictine Congregation in 1945, the Convent became sui iuris with decree of the Congregation for Religious in the Vatican in September 1947, and a House of the Slavonic Benedictine Congregation of Saint Adalbert and Saint Margaret (OSB). In this overview we find the introduction of the meaning of the word Congregation in the Benedictine interpretation, the Congregations in Benedictine History and in the History of East-Central Europe. Then the Author describes the short history of the Slavonic one, with special regard to the dispersion during Communism, and the refoundation after the Annus Mirabilis in 1989, he offers some statistical data of the Monasteries united in this Congregation in 1925 and in 2015. In the Tables a list of the Benedictine Congregations is offered according to the Pontifical approval until 1959.