Pontigny Abbey was a was a Cistercian monastery. Recently, it has been the cathedral for the Mission de France. For the Mission de France, it is the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny. The Abbey is in Pontigny on the River Serein, in the present diocese of Sens and department of Yonne, Burgundy, France. It was founded in 1114. The church was the 2nd great daughter house of Cîteaux Abbey. In 1791 in the French Revolution, it stopped being a church. The abbey, except for the church, was destroyed. In 1843, it was refounded as part of the Fathers of St. Edmund. The abbey became private property in 1909. In 1941 it became the mother house of the Mission de France. The Mission de France is a territorial prelature.