Editing Benedictines (section)

=== United States ===

The first Benedictine to live in the United States was Pierre-Joseph Didier. He came to the United States in 1790 from [[Paris]] and served in the Ohio and St. Louis areas until his death. The first actual Benedictine monastery founded was [[Saint Vincent Archabbey]], located in [[Latrobe, Pennsylvania]]. It was founded in 1832 by [[Boniface Wimmer]], a German monk, who sought to serve German immigrants in America. In 1856, Wimmer started to lay the foundations for [[Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville|St. John's Abbey]] in Minnesota. In 1876, Herman Wolfe, of Saint Vincent Archabbey established [[Belmont Abbey, North Carolina|Belmont Abbey]] in North Carolina.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://belmontabbey.org/learn-about-the-monastery/history-of-belmont-abbey/ |title='History of Belmont Abbey', Belmont Abbey, North Carolina |access-date=4 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416152335/http://belmontabbey.org/learn-about-the-monastery/history-of-belmont-abbey/ |archive-date=16 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> By the time of his death in 1887, Wimmer had sent Benedictine monks to Kansas, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Illinois, and Colorado.<ref name="RB 1980">{{Cite book|title = RB 1980: the rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with notes|author=St Benedict|author-link=St Benedict|translator-last = Fry|translator-first = Timothy|publisher = The Liturgical Press|year = 1981|isbn = 0-8146-1211-3|location = Collegeville, MN|pages = 136–141|ol=4255653M}}</ref>

Wimmer also asked for Benedictine [[Nun#Distinction between a nun and a religious sister|sister]]s to be sent to America by St. Walburg Convent in [[Eichstätt]], Bavaria. In 1852, [[Sister Benedicta Riepp]] and two other sisters founded [[St. Marys, Pennsylvania]]. Soon they would send sisters to Michigan, New Jersey, and Minnesota.<ref name="RB 1980" />

By 1854, Swiss monks began to arrive and founded [[St. Meinrad Archabbey|St. Meinrad Abbey]] in Indiana, and they soon spread to Arkansas and Louisiana. They were soon followed by Swiss sisters.<ref name="RB 1980" />

There are now over 100 Benedictine houses across America. Most Benedictine houses are part of one of four large Congregations: American-Cassinese, Swiss-American, St. Scholastica, and St. Benedict. The congregations mostly are made up of monasteries that share the same lineage. For instance the American-Cassinese congregation included the 22 monasteries descended from Boniface Wimmer.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Benedictine Congregations and Federations of North America in the Benedictine Confederation.|url = http://www.osb.org/intl/confed/nacong.html|website = www.osb.org|access-date = 24 November 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170903031504/http://www.osb.org/intl/confed/nacong.html|archive-date = 3 September 2017|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}}</ref>