Dom Manu van Hecke, abbot of the monastery of Sint Sixtus (diocese of Brugge, Belgium) since 1996, offered his resignation to the Abbot General in the light of ST 40.A of our Constitutions. With the consent of his Council, the Abbot General accepted the resignation, which became effective on September 11th, 2026
On October 8th, 2026, the community of St Sixtus elected Dom Guido van Belle as abbot for an indefinite term.
Dom Guido was born in 1959 in Ninove (Belgium). He entered the monastery of Zundert in 1995 and made his solemn profession in 2001. He was abbot of Zundert from 2020 until the General Chapter voted for the suppression of that community in September 2025. After that, Dom Guido changed stability to St Sixtus.
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