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<\/a><\/span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Wolf is a musician who performs traditional Benedictine chant and Christian rock. \u00a0<\/span>He \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Primate is an author in his spare time. In 2008, Wolf published Out of the Blue<\/i> (Munich: Rowohlt) and Rules for Life: The Ten Commandments – provocation and guidance for today <\/i>(Freiburg: Herder). In 2009 his book, God bless you! New ideas for living here <\/i>(Munich: Rowohlt) will be released.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n May God grant him many blessings!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. \u00a0 Abbot Notker was born 21 June 1940 and professed first vows on 17 September 1962 as … Continue reading Notker Wolf, Benedictine Abbot Primate re-elected<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1765,32089,1766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33935,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions\/33935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a><\/span>plays an electric guitar for Christian rock group Feedback. <\/span><\/p>\n