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Houses of the English Benedictine Congregation

=Current houses=

United Kingdom:

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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.downside.co.uk/abbey/history.html |title=Our History |publisher=downside.co.uk |accessdate=2008-01-15}}

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.{{cite book | author=Green, Bernard | title=The English Benedictine Congregation: A Short History | location=London | publisher=Catholic Truth Society | year=1980 | id=ISBN 0-85183-297-0}}

Stanbrook Abbey

| Nuns

| 1625

| Callow End, Worcestershire

| Cambrai, Flanders, 1625-1793; Woolton, Lancashire 1795-1807; Evesham, Worcestershire 1807-1838.{{cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14244a.htm |title=Stanbrook Abbey |publisher=Catholic Encyclopedia |accessdate=2008-01-15}}

Colwich Abbey

| Nuns

| 1651

| Colwich, Staffordshire

| Paris, France, 1651-1794; Marnhull, Dorset 1795-1807; Cannington, Somerset 1807-1836.{{cite web |url=http://www.colwichabbey.org.uk/places/places.htm |title=From Paris to Colwich|publisher=colwichabbey.co.uk |accessdate=2008-01-15}}

Belmont Abbey

| Monks

| 1859

| Belmont, Herefordshire

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Curzon Park Abbey

| Nuns

| 1868

| Curzon Park, Cheshire

| ;;;Talacre, Flintshire, 1920-1988

Buckfast Abbey

| Monks

| 1882

| Buckfastleigh, Devon

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Ealing Abbey

| Monks

| 1897

| Ealing, Greater London

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Worth Abbey

| Monks

| 1933

| Turners Hill, West Sussex

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United States:

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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

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,{{cite book | author=Green, Bernard | title=The English Benedictine Congregation: A Short History | location=London | publisher=Catholic Truth Society | year=1980 | id=ISBN 0-85183-297-0|pages=p. 66}} 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,

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