St. Meinrad archabbot announces resignation

Published: 2004-06-09

ST. MEINRAD, Ind. (CNS) -- Benedictine Archabbot Lambert Reilly, spiritual leader and chief administrator of St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana, has announced his resignation, effective Dec. 15. The 71-year-old archabbot's successor will be elected by St. Meinrad's 114-member monastic community on a date yet to be determined but within three months after Dec. 15. Archabbot Reilly, who first came to St. Meinrad as a seminarian studying for his home Diocese of Pittsburgh, later entered the monastic community and made his first vows as a Benedictine in 1956. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1959. The end of his nine-year tenure as abbot will come at the close of the yearlong celebration of the 150th anniversary of St. Meinrad's foundation by the Abbey of Einsiedeln in Switzerland.

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