St. Petroc Monastery (Cascades, Tasmania)

Saint Petroc Monastery
Jurisdiction	ROCOR ANZ
Type	Semi-Eremitic Male Monastery
Founded	1992
Superior	Hieromonk Michael
Approx. size
Location	Cascades, Tasmania, Australia
Liturgical language(s)	English
Music used	Western Rite, Sarum
Calendar	Julian
Feastdays celebrated
Official website	[1]

Saint Petroc Monastery is a semi-eremitic monastic community for men in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia located in Cascades, Tasmania. In 1997 it became a ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) establishment under the omophorion of His Grace Archbishop Hilarion (Kapral) of Sydney. The current superior is Hieromonk Michael Mansbridge-Wood, and the monastery has been assigned the task of attracting people of Anglo-Saxon-Celtic background to Orthodoxy using the Western Rite of the Orthodox Church.

The Monastery consists of two affiliated houses, Saint Petroc House with a small chapel, at Cascades and Holyrood House, with a small chapel at Avondale. The Monastery has the mechanism for creating attached monastery missions and parishes.

Timeline

• 1992 - Saint Petroc Monastery founded.
• 1997 - The monastery was received, by Archbishop Hilarion (Kapral) into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
• 1998 - The monastery begins the mission of Saint Stephen's in Launceston. Fr. Michael becomes a chaplain at the University of Tasmania.
• 2003 - Saint Colman Prayer Book, compiled by the monastery, is authorised for use in ROCOR.
• 2004 June - The Monastery calls a meeting of Western Rite clergy from Australia and New Zealand, regarding the future of the Western Rite in Australasia.

External Links

• Monastery homepage