Territorial Abbey - List of Territorial Abbeys

List of Territorial Abbeys

There are 11 remaining territorial abbeys, as listed in the Annuario Pontificio of the Vatican:

• Maria Einsiedeln, Switzerland
• Montecassino, Italy
• Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy
• Montevergine, Italy
• Pannonhalma, Hungary
• Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
• Saint Marry of Grottaferrata, Italy
• Santissima Trinità di Cava de' Tirreni, Italy
• Subiaco, Italy
• Tŏkwon (덕원), North Korea
  • Ecclesiastically united with South Korea, Tŏkwon had been vacant for over fifty years until 2005, when Fr. Francis Ri was appointed as the abbot. It has not been united with any diocese in either South Korea or North Korea due to the effective vacancy of the ones in North Korea and the lack of effective jurisdiction applied by the South Korean church.
• Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey, Austria

In Italy the following abbeys have been united with a diocese:

• Farfa (united with the Diocese of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto) in Italy
• Fontevivo (united with the Diocese of Parma)
• Pomposa (united with the Archdiocese of Ferrara–Comacchio)
• San Columbano (united with the Piacenza–Bobbio)
• San Martino al Monte Cimino (united with the Diocese of Viterbo)
• San Michele Arcangelo di Montescaglioso (united with the Archdiocese of Matera–Irsina)
• San Salvatore Maggiore (united with the Diocese of Rieti)
• Santa Maria di Polsi (united with the Diocese of Locri–Gerace)
• Santissimo Salvatore (united with the Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela)

In other European countries:

• Cluny (in Burgundy; now united with the Diocese of Autun) is the only one in France. Historically Cluny was the mother house of the Congregation of Cluny as a result of the Cluniac monastic reform of the 11th century, primarily in that it removed many Benedictine abbeys under its jurisdiction from local feudal allegiances (hence establishing their independence) and had new ones founded. It became extremely rich and influential within and beyond the Church.

Historically there have been more, such as

• St. Peter-Muenster, which from 1921 until 1998 served a remote area of Saskatchewan, Canada (the abbey still exists, but its territorial jurisdiction and duties were absorbed by the Diocese of Saskatoon).
• St. Alexander Orosci, enclaved in the Albanian Diocese of Alessio
• Pinerolo, a prince-abbacy in Piedmont later transformed into a bishopric.
• Abbey of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome (jurisdiction passed to a newly named archpriest in 2005).
• Belmont Abbey - Mary, Help of Christians, which was the territorial abbey of half of North Carolina from 1910 until 1960, when it lost its last extra-abbatial territory. It was formally suppressed as a territorial abbey in 1977.