On October 8, Sr. Rosann Ocken was elected as 14th Prioress General of our Congregation.
M. Angela Strobel, who was Prioress General 2006 - 2018 presided over the election.
Sr. Rosann will succeed M. Maoro Sye, the present Prioress General.
Sr. Rosann was born in 1951 in Iowa, Carroll County / USA. She entered the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in Norfolk in 1969, having first profession in 1972 and final profession in 1975. She studied at Creighton University, BS-Education and MA-Pastoral Ministry and received later a certificate in Spiritual Direction through the Yankton Benedictine Sisters’ program.
She has been an elementary school teacher, a campus minister, and served vocation-formation ministry
and as oblate director in the Norfolk Priory for about 12 years.
She gained much experience in leadership as superior in Wayne, prioress in Peramiho 2007 - 2015, and superior in Jinja / Uganda 2015 - 2018. Presently she is serving as prioress in Norfolk since 2018.
Congratulations and
may God be always your strength and your guide!
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