On behalf of the Benedictine Confederation, Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder congratulates Bishop Manuel Nin Güell on his appointment as Exarch of the Territorial Abbey of Grottaferrata. Grottaferrata is the only monastery of the Order of Basilian Monks in Italy. It is a territorial abbey and an exarchical monastery—that is, the superior holds episcopal rank. The monks follow the Rule of Saint Basil the Great, who was greatly admired and quoted by Saint Benedict. Pope Leo XIII involved the Benedictines in the matters of this small, somewhat isolated community. Bishop Nin is the third Benedictine with responsibility for this monastery in recent times, following Abbot Michel van Parys, OSB, and Abbot Francisco de Feo, OSB. Simultaneously, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro has served as Apostolic Administrator of the abbey since 2013.

Bishop Manuel Nin is a monk of the Abbey of Montserrat in Catalonia and a former rector of the Greek College in Rome. Since 2016, he has served as Bishop for the Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Greece. He is also a professor at the Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo.