[1][2] In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries there was a general secularization and suppression of monasteries throughout Europe: "by 1810 fewer than thirty of the estimated 1500 European Benedictine monasteries that existed in the previous century remained.

It was in the midst of this revival that Abbot Boniface Wimmer, founder of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, created the American-Cassinese congregation.

[5] These are the former presidents of the congregation in order of election and years served:[6] [7] Monks from Metten Abbey in Bavaria founded St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1846.

Most, but not all, of the other monasteries in the American-Cassinese Congregation can trace their lineage back to Metten Abbey.

[5] Twenty educational apostolates founded by monasteries of the American-Cassinese Congregation continue to exist in 2022.