On Saturday, 15 February 2025, the monks of Saint Peter’s Archabbey (Austria)gathered to elect a new archabbot. New elections are normally held every twelve years, this time at the end of Archabbot Korbinian Birnbacher OSB’s term of office. It was held under the direction of Abbot President Johannes Perkmann OSB from Michaelbeuern Abbey. According to the statutes of the Benedictine Congregation, 22 monks were eligible to vote.
The electoral chapter elected Fr. Jakob Auer OSB as the 89th abbot and 7th archabbot of St Peter’s.
Fr. Jakob Auer OSB was born in Salzburg in 1991 and grew up in the municipality of Elsbethen. He joined the Archabbey of Saint Peter in 2013, took perpetual vows on 21 March 2018 and was ordained a priest on 29 June 2022. In the monastic community, he has held the office of church rector of the collegiate church since 2022 and has been prior, i.e. deputy to the archabbot, since 1 April 2024.
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