Many more Benedictine communities have been founded…
998 CE
Many more Benedictine communities have been founded during the centuries following the death of Benedict of Nursia, the founder of Western Christian monastic communities, and a rule-giver for cenobitic monks.
These autonomous communities are not only for monks but also for nuns, first throughout Europe and eventually also other areas of the world. (This is to lead to the formation in 1883 of the Order of St. Benedict.)
In addition to these communities, a number of independent monastic orders have been founded on the rule of St. Benedict, and so are also Benedictines in that sense.
Such orders include the Congregation of Cluny, the Cistercians, and the Trappists.
The Benedictine monasteries continue to make considerable contributions not only to the monastic and the spiritual life of the West, but also to economics, education, and government, so that the years from 550 to 1150 may be called the "Benedictine centuries".
In England, where the Benedictines are active, the twentieth bishop of Sherborne, Wulfsige III (or St. Wulfsin), in 998 establishes a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne and becomes its first abbot.
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