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Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B. has been a Benedictine monk of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon since 1973. He was ordained a priest in 1981. In 1983 he earned an S.T.L. in patristics from the Augustinianum Patristic Institute in Rome.

He has been teaching theology in Mount Angel Seminary since then. In 1990 he was awarded an S.T.D. from the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo in Rome, writing his thesis on Evagrius Ponticus and ancient Egyptian monasticism.

He has taught theology at Mount Angel Seminary since 1983, and since 1994 he has also been teaching a semester each year at Sant’Anselmo in Rome. In 2002 he was named as advisor to the Vox Clara Commission for the Congregation for Divine Worship at the Vatican. In 2004 he was named a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. In 2005 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship. He is also a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

On March 12, 2016, Abbot Jeremy was elected the 12th Abbot of Mount Angel Abbey.