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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