Abbot of Cistercian Latroun Abbey, Israel

The election of
Dom Rene Hascoët OCSO
on June 30th as the 5th Abbot of the Trappist Abbey of Latrun, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

Habemus Abbatem!

01.07.2011    

The Abbot of the Mother Abbey of Sept-Fons, Dom Patrick Olive came to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem to announce with great joy the election of Dom Rene Hascoët on June 30th as the 5th Abbot of the Trappist Abbey of Latrun, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

Left. Dom René Hascoët, Abbot
Latroun Abbey, Israel

Born in Brittany in 1949, he studied horticulture and worked for several years before entering the Abbey of Timadeuc at the age of 25. He made solemn profession on November 11, 1979. In September 1992, Dom Paul Saouma, the former abbot of Latrun asked him to take care of the cellar of the monastery, which was famous throughout the region. He spent some time as master of novices at the St. Savior monastery in Monastery in Ghazir, Lebanon. He went back to Latrun as Prior in 2003. Following the resignation of Dom Paul Saouma, he was appointed superior of the community on June 15, 2008 until his recent election as Abbot. He will receive blessings from His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriach of Jerusalem in November.

Abbot Rene