German Benedictines

Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 to 1024

archbishop of Mainz and writer (d. 856)

German 11th-century Benedictine monk

Roman Catholic Saint

German writer

German Benedictine padre and author

French saint, archbishop and missionary (c.910–981)

Catholic cardinal (1911–2010)

German monk, bishop and saint

Carolingian priest and poet

Augustinian prior

German religious reformer

monk and scholar of the Abbey of Saint Gall

Medieval bishop and author

German scholar

German-born British Benedictine monk and apiculturist (1898-1996)

German writer, priest and theologian

Classical composer and Benedictine monk (1742-1815)

German Buddhist teacher (1925-2020)

German abbot and theologian

Christian mystic

German Anabaptist martyr, author of the Schleitheim Confession

German composer, organist and choirmaster

German historian (1816–1892)

9th century Benedictine monk and historian

Franciscan friar and chronicler

Swedish general, and Prince-Abbot of Fulda and Kempten, and cardinal

German librarian

German bishop (1929-2020)

German clergyman and writer

Bishop of Constance

Roman Catholic bishop

Catholic cardinal

German saint

German chronicler

German abbot

Irish monk

Bavarian abbot primate (1940–2024)

bishop of Metz (1853–1921)

Catholic cardinal

monk, founding member of Beuron Art School (1832-1928)

anti-Nazi noble-born Benedictine monk (1896-1964)

Founder of first American Benedictine monastery (1809-1887)

German philologist, historian and theologian (1910-1999)

German chronicler

French bishop

German historian

Catholic bishop (1804–1877)

German historian

German theologian (1772-1847)

German bishop (1865-1944)

Austrian abbot

German church historian

Catholic bishop (1816–1876)

German monk, diplomat

German philosopher and poet

The Blessed Utto was the first abbot of the Bavarian Metten Abbey of the Benedictine Order. His feast is celebrated on October 3.

12th-century German goldsmith

German bishop and saint

German abbot