Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, O.Cist., born 1959 is since 2010 the current General Abbot of the

Cistercian order The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Sain ...

. He entered in 1984 Hauterive Abbey, became priest in 1990. He was between 1990 and 1994 novice master in this abbey. He was elected and ordained in 1994 as Abbot of Hauterive and in 2010 as 82nd abbot-general in succession of

Maurus Esteva Alsina Maurus Esteva Alsina or Maur Esteva i Alsina, OCist 1933-2014 was the Abbot general of the Common observance between 1995–2010. Career He was born in Catalonia, Spain, and entered in 1958 to the community of the Royal Abbey of Santa Maria de ...

OCist. He was succeeded in the abbey by Marc de Pothuau.

Works

* L'amato presente. L'esperienza della misericordia. – Genova-Milano : Marietti, 2002 * Simone chiamato Pietro. Sui passi di un uomo alla sequela di Dio. – Genova-Milano : Marietti, 2004 * Il mistero è pasquale. Omelie per il Triduo Sacro 1995–2004. – Genova-Milano : Marietti, 2006 * Fu invitato anche Gesù. Conversazoini sulla vocazione famigliare. – Siena : Cantagalli, 2006 * Sorpresi dalla gratuità. – Siena : Cantagalli, 2007 * La vita si è manifestata. Omelie sull'attesa, l'avvenimento e la manifestazione dell'Incarnazione del Signore. – Genova-Milano : Marietti, 2008 * Simon Petrus: Gedanken aus dem Zisterzienserkloster. – Freiburg : Paulus, 2008 * Simon Called Peter. In the Company of a Man in Search of God. – San Francisco : Ignatius, 2010. –

References

Cistercian abbots general Living people 1959 births {{RC-clergy-stub