Norcia Abbey is a Benedictine community in Norcia, Italy. Monks came to Norcia in the tenth century, and the monastery closed in 1810 under Napoleonic-era measures. Cassian Folsom, an American monk of St. Meinrad Archabbey, founded a new community in September 1998, and it moved to Norcia in December 2000 at the invitation of the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, to care for the Basilica of St. Benedict. That basilica stood above the birthplace of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in October 2016 destroyed the basilica and most of the monastery, and the monks relocated to a former Capuchin monastery on a hillside 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) east of the center. They use the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
The monastery was raised to an independent abbey on May 25, 2024, and Benedict Nivakoff was elected its first abbot. A brewery funds the community.
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