Ostanback Monastery

Ostanback Monastery is a Lutheran Benedictine monastery for men in the Church of Sweden, positioned outside Sala in Sweden. The background of the monastery lies inside the Lutheran High Church Movement. On 14 February 1960, 4 theological students, from both the University of Lund and the University of Uppsala, took their vows, forming the Holy Cross Fraternity beneath the spiritual guidance of an Anglican Franciscan priest in education for the establishment of a non secular order. The length of analyzing and practise later led them in the direction of the Benedictine renewal in the Roman Catholic Church of the Second Vatican Council. Finally the first brethren moved to OstanbAck in November 1970.

The chapel and monastery have been consecrated on 20 July 1975 via Bishop Bengt Sundkler. The brethren observe the Rule of St. Benedict. The monastery has a candle manufacturing facility in Ostanback, which produces candles in distinctive styles and sizes, amongst them Paschal candles. The chief of the monastery is Father Caesarius Cavallin, OSB. Like the Anglican Benedictine abbots, he is regularly invited as an observer to the Benedictine abbots' meetings in Rome.