Savannah Priory
 Location within Georgia (U.S. state)
Location within Georgia (U.S. state)
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| Monastery information | |
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| Other names | Savannah Priory |
| Order | Benedictine |
| Established | 1877 |
| Mother house |
Saint Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania |
| Diocese | Savannah |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Abbot Nullius Leo Haid, O.S.B. |
| Abbot | The Right Rev. Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B. |
| Prior | The Rev. Frank Ziemkiewicz, O.S.B, |
| Architecture | |
| Functional Status | monastery |
| Completion date | 1963 |
| Site | |
| Location | 6502 Seawright Drive, Savannah, Georgia 31406 United States |
| Coordinates | 32°0′34″N 81°5′33″W / 32.00944°N 81.09250°WCoordinates: 32°0′34″N 81°5′33″W / 32.00944°N 81.09250°W |
The Benedictine Priory of Savannah, more commonly referred to as Savannah Priory, is a small American monastery of Benedictine monks located in Savannah, Georgia. The priory was founded in 1877, and is a dependency of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and thereby belongs to the American-Cassinese Congregation. It currently operates the Benedictine Military School for boys.
In 1866, the Catholic bishops of the United States had met in Baltimore for the Second Plenary Council held there to continue providing order to the Catholic Church, which was still newly established in the nation. One of the decrees which resulted from that assembly was to call on all the bishops of the country to establish an outreach to the newly emancipated African-American slaves. In keeping with this mandate, William Hickley Gross, C.Ss.R., at that time the Roman Catholic Bishop of Savannah, invited the Benedictine monks of St. Vincent Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to contribute priests to this mission in his diocese.
In response to his invitation, Abbot Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., the founder of Benedictine life in the United States, sent two German-born monks to Savannah in 1874. The monks quickly began missionary work amongst newly freed slaves, opening St. Benedict Parish in the city that year, and a parochial school the following year.
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