Orthodox Christian Monastery of St Anthony and St Cuthbert, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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General Details

Type

Monastery

Archdiocese

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland

Head Priest

Metropolitan Silouan

Priest

Archimandrite Philip

Feast Day

January 17

Second Feast Day

March 20

Historical Details

Build - Founding Year

1994

History

The Monastery was Founded in 1994 as the Hermitage of St Anthony and St Cuthbert by Brother Aidan (Hart). Rdr Aidan converted the original farmhouse, built cells, and painted the iconography of the monastic chapel as well as envisioning the ecological and liturgically centred life of the monastery. In 2001 Monk Silouan continued the stewardship of the Hermitage and its ecology until 2017. In 2018 it was re-founded as a coenobitic monastery by the Brotherhood of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul under Abbot Archimandrite Philip, retaining the name, the Holy Monastery of St Anthony and St Cuthbert.