The Territorial Abbey of Montevergine ( la, Territorialis Abbatia Montisvirginis) is a

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located in the commune of

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in the

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in Italy. About 1120 William of Vercelli founded an abbey of eremitic inspiration dedicated to the

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. It was consecrated in 1124 on ''Mons Sacer'', so called because of the ruins of a temple of

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and her son,

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, are buried in the abbey. The new basilica, built in 1961, is home to a 13th-century Byzantine icon of a

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.Described in ''Sketch Book of the South'', 1835. In 1926 it was established as the Territorial Abbacy of Montevergine.

Leadership

* Territorial Abbots of Montevergine (Roman rite) ** Abbot

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, O.S.B. ** Abbot

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, O.S.B. (April 18, 2009 – April 18, 2014) ** Fr.

, O.S.B. (Apostolic Administrator November 15, 2006 – April 18, 2009) ** Abbot Tarciscio Giovanni Nazzaro, O.S.B. (June 24, 1998 – November 15, 2006) ** Abbot Francesco Pio Tamburrino (later Archbishop) (November 29, 1989 – February 14, 1998) ** Abbot

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, O.S.B. (October 15, 1979 – 1989) ** Abbot Anselmo Ludovico Tranfaglia, O.S.B. (December 17, 1952 – 1968) ** Abbot

Giuseppe Ramiro Marcone Giuseppe Ramiro Marcone (1882, San Pietro Infine, Italy – 1952, Montevergine) was a Benedictine abbot. He was ordained in 1906 and appointed Abbot of Montevergine, Italy in 1918. He served an Apostolic Visitor to Croatia during World War II, in ...

, O.S.B. (March 11, 1918 – 1952) ** Abbot

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, O.S.B. (later Archbishop) (September 1908 – April 7, 1915) ** Abbot Vittore Corvaia, O.S.B. (later Bishop) (January 18, 1884 – July 12, 1908)

References

GCatholic.org

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