On Thursday afternoon, 25 September 2008, the assembled delegates of the Congress of Abbots re-elected the Most Rev. Dr. Notker Wolf, OSB, to a term of four years as the ninth Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation.
Abbot Notker was born 21 June 1940 and professed first vows on 17 September 1962 as a monk of the St. Ottilien Congregation. He was ordained a priest, 1 September 1968, and elected Archabbot of St. Ottilien, 1 October 1977.
The Benedictine Congress of Abbots elected him Abbot Primate and Abbot of Sant'Anselmo, 7 September 2000, for a term of eight years. His first official act after his re-election today was to re-appoint all officials both at Sant'Anselmo and elsewhere.
Wolf is a musician who performs traditional Benedictine chant and Christian rock. He
plays an electric guitar for Christian rock group Feedback.
The Primate is an author in his spare time. In 2008, Wolf published Out of the Blue (Munich: Rowohlt) and Rules for Life: The Ten Commandments - provocation and guidance for today (Freiburg: Herder). In 2009 his book, God bless you! New ideas for living here (Munich: Rowohlt) will be released.
May God grant him many blessings!
I am a former Brother of the Congregation of St.Otillien in Tigoni, Kenya. I remember Archabbot Notker Wolf as a great leader when he used to visit our Monastery in Nairobi. God Bless Him.