Editing Buckfast Abbey (section)

===Benedictine abbots===
Monastic life was restored at Buckfast in 1882; it became an abbey, under the direction of an abbot, in 1902.
* Very Rev Dom Thomas Duperou – Superior: 1882 – 1884 (became Abbot of Sacred Heart, USA)
* Very Rev Dom Leander Lemoine – Superior: 1884 – 1885
* Very Rev Dom Benedict Gariador – Prior: August 1885 – February 1899
* Very Rev Dom Leander Lemoine – Superior: March 1899
* Very Rev Dom Ignatius Jean – Superior: April 1899 – March 1900 (not a Monk of Buckfast)
* Very Rev Dom Leander Lemoine – Superior: March 1900 – July 1902 (was also Abbot Visitor)
* Very Rev Dom Savinian Louismet – Superior: July 1902 – November 1902
* Right Rev Dom [[Boniface Natter]] – Abbot: elected 19 November 1902. Died 4 August 1906.<ref name=beattie303>Beattie 303.</ref>
* Right Rev Dom [[Anscar Vonier]] – Elected 14 September 1906. Died 26 December 1938.
* Right Rev Dom [[Bruno Fehrenbacher]] elected 10 January 1939. Resigned 1956. Titular Abbot of Tavistock till his death on 18 July 1965.<ref name=beattie303/>
* Right Rev Dom Placid Hooper elected 5 January 1957. Ruling Abbot till 1976. Titular Abbot of Tavistock till his death on 11 December 1995<ref name=beattie303/>
* Right Rev Dom Leo Smith elected 30 January 1976. Ruling Abbot till 1992. Titular Abbot of Colchester till his death on 10 July 1998<ref name=beattie303/>
* Right Rev Dom David Charlesworth elected 3 January 1992. Ruling Abbot till 1999. Titular Abbot of Malmesbury.<ref name=beattie303/>
* Very Rev Dom Sebastian Wolff appointed Prior Administrator in January 2000
* Right Rev Dom William Philip Manahan elected Abbot 10 December 2003. Resigned December 2006 and was convicted and imprisoned for child sex abuse.<ref name=MJ/>
* Right Rev Dom Richard Yeo appointed Abbot Administrator February 2007 until January 2009
* Right Rev Dom David Charlesworth re-elected Abbot 27 January 2009. January 2018 appointed Abbot Administrator after the community failed to elect an Abbot.
* Very Rev Dom Gavin Francis Straw appointed Prior Administrator March 2019.
* Right Rev Dom David Charlesworth re-elected Abbot 9 April 2021.