Established in 1983 at the request of Bishop Generoso Camiña of the Diocese of Digos, the monastery is currently home to 21 monks.
In 1981, Bishop Generoso Camiña of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Digos asked Archabbot Notker Wolf to establish a monastery of Missionary Benedictines on the island of Mindanao.
For the young community, Bishop Camiña envisioned the performance of extraordinary pastoral work, to include the preaching of retreats and the provision of adult catechesis.
The monks themselves wanted to maintain a peaceful monastery that could provide a location for Christians to deepen their faith, while at the same time obliging Bishop Camiña's wishes inasmuch as these did not conflict with a life in accordance with the Rule of Benedict.
[2] On July 11, 1989, exactly seven years since its foundation, St Benedict's Monastery was raised to the status of a simple priory, still under the authority of the Council of the Congregation.
The foundation, 45 km from Digos, was established in 1988 for monks engaged in clerical studies at Davao's theological school.
At this time, the conceptual priory also included ten temporally professed monks, four of them studying theology in Davao.