Fr. Anselm Adodo, OSB, joins the Collegeville Institute as Senior Research Fellow and Special Advisor September 4, 2026 By Collegeville Institute Leave a Comment Fr. Anselm Adodo, OSB, is a Benedictine monk whose work over three decades has followed a continuous thread from healing to community to economic life. He founded Paxherbal, an African center for phytomedicine research and education. There, questions of healing led him to consider how communities sustain themselves. That line of inquiry became Communitalism, a framework inspired by Benedictine economic, educational, and social principles. Communitalism seeks to build economic life around shared responsibility rather than competition. Fr. Anselm develops this framework most fully in his book Integral Community Enterprise: Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism, published by Routledge. His co-authored books include The Idea of the Communiversity: Releasing the Natural, Cultural, Technological, and Economic Gene-ius of Societies, published by Beacon Academic, and Integral Research and Societal Regeneration in Africa: From University to Communiversity, published by Peter Lang. He has also published numerous articles and essays on natural health, economics, and faith. Fr. Anselm teaches at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan and has lectured at institutions including the Africa Research Institute in London. Throughout his scholarship, he brings the intercultural and contemplative sensibility of his Benedictine formation. In his new role, Fr. Anselm will accompany the Collegeville Institute’s executive director during a foundational season for the organization. He will listen closely to staff and partners while helping CI develop clearer systems, roles, and shared tools that support its daily work. He will also lead formation sessions rooted in Benedictine and global monastic practices, helping staff deepen their commitment to the Institute’s values of hospitality, contemplative listening, and intercultural collaboration. During his pilot year with the Resident Scholars Program, he will serve as an intellectual and formational partner. He will help recruit and welcome scholars, shape the rhythms of communal life, and cultivate a space in which, as the program describes it, “God is the quiet host.” Like this post? Subscribe to have new posts sent to you by email the same day they are posted.
