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\"Abbot<\/a>

Abbot Primate Gregory Polan, OSB<\/p><\/div>
\nT<\/span>his morning, on September 10, 2016, Abbot Gregory Polan, O.S.B., of Conception Abbey, Conception, Mo., was elected Abbot Primate of the 1500-year-old Benedictine Order at the Congress of Abbots meeting in Rome, Italy held every four years.<\/p>\n

As head of the Benedictine Confederation, Abbot Gregory will be the unifying head of the worlds 7,000 Benedictine monks and become the abbot of the monastery Sant\u2019 Anselmo in Rome, where he will reside.<\/p>\n

Full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, on September 10, 2016, Abbot Gregory Polan, O.S.B., of Conception Abbey, Conception, Mo., was elected Abbot Primate of the 1500-year-old Benedictine Order at the Congress of Abbots meeting in Rome, Italy held every four years. As head of the Benedictine Confederation, Abbot Gregory will be the unifying head of the worlds 7,000 Benedictine monks and become the abbot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inside-baseball","category-moments-in-time","category-vocation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Abbot_Gregory.jpg?fit=687%2C811&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-mNk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106341,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/feast-of-the-holy-abbots-of-cluny-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":87626,"position":0},"title":"Feast of the Holy Abbots of Cluny","author":"Thom","date":"29 April 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"is the feast of four great Abbots of the Benedictine Order: Saints Odo, Majolus, Odilo, and Hugh. 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