Stiepel Priory

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Stiepel Priory is a Cistercian monastery in Stiepel in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

It was founded in 1988 at the instigation of Franz Hengsbach, first Bishop of the Diocese of the Ruhr. It is a dependent house of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria.

The priory church is also a Marian pilgrimage site to Our Lady of Sorrows.

Priors and Subpriors

FromToPriorSubprior
1 September 198830 September 2001Beda Zilch Christian Feurstein
1 October 200130 September 2004 Christian Feurstein Jakobus Kempkes
1 October 200410 February 2011Maximilian HeimJakobus Kempkes
10 February 201112 June 2014Primin HolzschuhJakobus Kempkes
13 June 20141 February 2018Primin HolzschuhAndreas Wüller
2 February 201830 November 2019Andreas WüllerGabriel Chumacera
30 November 2019Maurus ZerbRupert Fetsch

51°25′54.36″N7°13′43.23″E / 51.4317667°N 7.2286750°E / 51.4317667; 7.2286750


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