Sint-Pietersabdij, monastery in Bruges, Belgium

Sint-Pietersabdij is a 19th-century Benedictine monastery in Steenbrugge, Assebroek, near the Gent–Bruges canal. Its dark brown brick buildings include a tall entrance block with a stepped gable and cross, a square tower with a pyramidal roof, and a long nave with tall windows. The abbey church, also the parish church, has a 1952 portal and stained-glass windows by ceramist Rogier Vandeweghe.

Pastor Filip Pollet bought land at Steenbrugge in 1875 and brought four monks from Dendermonde in 1879; the priory became an abbey in 1896 with Amandus Mertens as first abbot. In 1934 it received the succession rights of the Sint-Pietersabdij of Oudenburg (1086–1797) and took that name. Abbot Eligius Dekkers made it an intellectual centre from 1967.

The abbey's name changed in 1934, when it received the succession right of the Sint-Pietersabdij in Oudenburg (1086–1797) and took over that abbey's coat of arms. The church, which also serves as the parish church, keeps paintings about Oudenburg, stained glass by ceramist Rogier Vandeweghe, a 17th-century bust of Saint Arnoldus and, in the baptistery, a Marian statue containing fragments of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Affligem.

The abbey stands in Steenbrugge, Assebroek, beside the Ghent-Bruges canal, not in Bruges' medieval centre. The abbey church, which also serves as the parish church of the Holy Heart and Saint Philip, keeps its 1952 portal and a tower rebuilt after the First World War. The monks left the old buildings for a new house next door, and the convent buildings passed to the Centre for Catholic Education of the Diocese of Bruges.

Corpus Christianorum is not a manuscript collection but a scholarly edition of the Church Fathers, launched under Abbot Eligius Dekkers, who led the abbey from 1967 to 1981; its first volume appeared in 1954 and more than 400 volumes followed. The abbey also published the yearbook Sacris Erudiri from 1948.