About Us
Welcome
We are a group of Orthodox faithful, who seek to live out the fullness of our Faith in Christ using the worship and patterns of our forebears. We began our mission in an 'Old Calendarist' jurisdiction, but have found our spiritual home within the ancient Church of Antioch.
Our monastic life is centred around the residential communities at Buittle Castle and Dumfries, and our outward mission is at the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Ninian in Dumfries, Scotland. We are also the custodians of the Orthodox Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, and Our Lady's Well in Scotland.
We are always welcoming of anybody who wants to join us for services, or to know more. Please do get in contact with us at WRmonastics@gmail.com.
Our Administration
The Monastic Brotherhoods are under the Episcopal authority of His Eminence, Metropolitan Silouan of the British Isles and Ireland.
The day to day spiritual life and operation of the brotherhoods is overseen by Hierodeacon James, who serves as superior.
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Our Communities
We have communities sparsely spread throughout the UK, with monastics who live and work at Botel Abbey, in Kirkcudbrightshire, New Whithorn Minster in Dumfries - at the Cathedral of Our Lady and Saint Ninian. Botel Abbey is located on the grounds of an historic medieval castle set among the beautiful rolling hills of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. It houses an Orthodox Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. The Cathedral of Our Lady and Saint Ninian is located in the Former Greyfriars Church at the top of the High Street in Dumfries. It is especially notable for its significant lipsanotheca of relics, including relics of the Holy Cross, Our Lady, the Apostles and Evangelists, St Machutus, St Alban, St Walburga and hundreds of other saints.
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We are currently in the process of renovating our Cathedral, located in Dumfries, Scotland, which we have recently acquired and dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Ninian. Recently the significant Relic Chapel, as well as the Byzantine Rite Chapel of Saint Neophytos the Recluse have been installed. It is developing as a centre of pilgrimage, and the primary location where our community come together for our most important services.
We are very pleased that our communities are becoming well known for their academic work on the Use of Sarum, most of the material of which is published by Saint Alban's Press
