Maurus Esteva Alsina


Maurus Esteva Alsina or Maur Esteva i Alsina, OCist was the Abbot General of the Cistercian Order between 1995 and 2010.

Career

He was born in Catalonia, Spain, and entered the community of the Royal Abbey of [Santa Maria de Poblet] in 1958. He studied in Rome. He was elected abbot in 1970, during a period in which his abbey flourished. In 1995 he succeeded Ferenc Polikárp Zakar as Abbot General of the Common observance. He was succeeded in 2010 by Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori. He died in Poblet Abbey.

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