Father Florian

Father Florian (born Prince Franz-Josef of Bavaria, 21 September 1957 – 22 June 2022[1]) was a member of the Roman Catholic Order of Saint Benedict.

He is the eldest son of Prince Rasso of Bavaria and his wife, Archduchess Theresa of Austria, and belongs to the House of Wittelsbach.

Florian was a Benedictine monk, a member of the Roman Catholic Order of Saint Benedict.

Since 1996, he had been living at the Peramiho Abbey in Tanzania and in Kenya he became prior administrator of the Prince of Peace Benedictine Monastery – Tigoni Limuru.

He was lately working in Illeret, St. Peter the Fisherman parish, and a new Benedictine Monastery in the Diocese of Marsabit, northern part of Kenya.