On 7 July 2025, the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo, following confirmation from the Dicastery for Culture and Education, announced with joy the appointment of its new rector, Professor Dr Jákó Örs Fehérváry OSB. The appointment was made by the grand chancellor, Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder OSB.

Father Fehérváry, a monk of the Hungarian Archabbey of Pannonhalma, has until now served as director of the Sapientia Institute of Theology of Religious Orders in Budapest, affiliated with the Faculty of Theology at Sant’Anselmo. He earned a Licentiate in Liturgy from the Institut Catholique de Paris in 2000, and completed his Doctorate in Liturgy at Sant’Anselmo in 2008.

The new rector will begin his term of office on 9 September 2025. The entire academic community extends its best wishes for a fruitful ministry in service of Sant’Anselmo, the Benedictine Confederation and the universal Church.