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[edit] Houses of the English Benedictine Congregation

[edit] Current houses

United Kingdom:

Name	Monks or nuns	Founded	Current location	Previous locations
Downside Abbey	Monks	1607	Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset	Douai, Flanders/France, 1607-1794; Acton Burnell, Shropshire, 1794-1814.[1]
Ampleforth Abbey	Monks	1608	Ampleforth, North Yorkshire	Dieulouard, France, 1608-1798; ETC.
Douai Abbey	Monks	1615	Woolhampton, Berkshire	Paris, France, 1615-1798; Douai, France 1818-1903.[2]
Stanbrook Abbey	Nuns	1625	Callow End, Worcestershire	Cambrai, Flanders, 1625-1793; Woolton, Lancashire 1795-1807; Evesham, Worcestershire 1807-1838.[3]
Colwich Abbey	Nuns	1651	Colwich, Staffordshire	Paris, France, 1651-1794; Marnhull, Dorset 1795-1807; Cannington, Somerset 1807-1836.[4]
Belmont Abbey	Monks	1859	Belmont, Herefordshire
Curzon Park Abbey	Nuns	1868	Curzon Park, Cheshire	;;;Talacre, Flintshire, 1920-1988
Buckfast Abbey	Monks	1882	Buckfastleigh, Devon
Ealing Abbey	Monks	1897	Ealing, Greater London
Worth Abbey	Monks	1933	Turners Hill, West Sussex

United States:

Name	Monks or nuns	Founded	Current location
Portsmouth Abbey	Monks	1918	Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Saint Anselm's Abbey	Monks	1923	Washington, D.C.
St. Louis Abbey	Monks	1955	St. Louis, Missouri

[edit] Notable members of the community

In the nineteenth century several monks were instrumental in the development of the Catholic Church within the British Empire, and particularly Australia. William Placid Morris, a monk of the community, was appointed Vicar Apostolic for Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar in 1832,^[5] and as such his jurisdiction embraced a substantial part of the British Empire, including Mauritius and its dependencies; these depdencies included, at that time, all of Australia as well as New Zealand. While Vicar Apostolic, he invited William Bernard Ullathorne, another member of the community,