{"id":25656,"date":"2010-06-24T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/abbot-damien-toilolo-elected-a\/"},"modified":"2016-09-04T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:08:58","slug":"abbot-damien-toilolo-elected-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/abbot-damien-toilolo-elected-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Toilolo elected abbot of St Andrew&#8217;s Abbey, Valyermo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Abbot%20Damien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Abbot Damien-thumb-250x256-6795.jpg\" alt=\"Abbot Damien.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a>The monks of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintandrewsabbey.com\/\">Saint Andrew&#8217;s Abbey<\/a><\/strong>, Valyermo (CA) gathered to elect a new abbot, Damien Toilolo on June 22, replacing Abbot Francis who stepped down two years ago. The new <i>abbas<\/i> is the second elected abbas of St Andrew&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>St Andrew&#8217;s Abbey is an abbey of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintandrewsabbey.com\/SearchResults.asp?Cat=38\">Annunciation Congregation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Abbot Damien, until now, has served the Benedictine community as the Prior Administrator. But he&#8217;s also been the vocation director, postulant director, novice master and sub-prior.<\/p>\n<div>A native of Los Angeles, Damien has experience in other things including a teaching credential. He was ordained a priest in 2005 after preparing for priesthood at Mt Angel Seminary. Abbot Damien will serve a 8-year term.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>St Andrew&#8217;s Abbey has roots in Belgium and was for a time a priory in China before it was forced to move to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It was raised to abbatial rank in 1992.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abundant blessings!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monks of Saint Andrew&#8217;s Abbey, Valyermo (CA) gathered to elect a new abbot, Damien Toilolo on June 22, replacing Abbot Francis who stepped down two years ago. The new abbas is the second elected abbas of St Andrew&#8217;s. St Andrew&#8217;s Abbey is an abbey of the Annunciation Congregation. Abbot Damien, until now, has served &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/abbot-damien-toilolo-elected-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Damien Toilolo elected abbot of St Andrew&#8217;s Abbey, Valyermo<\/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":[1848,32089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656"}],"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=25656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33939,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656\/revisions\/33939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}