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type=Male Monastery|
founded=1986|
superior=Hieromonk Abbot Tryphon|
size=5 members|
hq=Vashon Island, Washington|
music=[[Russian Chant]]; [[Valaam Monastery|Valaam]]-style [[Znamenny Chant]]|
calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|
feasts=[[August 1|14 August/1 August]]|according to the Julian Calendar.
website=[http://vashonmonks.com/ Official website]
}}
'''All-Merciful Savior Monastery''' is a monastic community of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] and is the only male Orthodox monastery in Washington state. It was established in 1986 by Archimandrite Dmitri in of Santa Rosa, California, and in 1988, under the leadership of Hieromonk the Very Rev. Abbot Tryphon, moved to Vashon Island, Washington. The monastery was founded in the [[OCA]] but now is part of the [[ROCOR]].
Starting in In 1992, islanders Georgia and John Ratzenberger ("Cliff" from the US television series "Cheers") began donating donated five acres of land to the monastery. In 1999, to protect the solitude of the monastery, the benefactors enabled the brotherhood to purchase purchased an adjacent piece eleven acres of land and to save it from development. Along with an adjacent, publicly-owned 40 acre watershed, the monastery is quietly secluded in the forests of Maury Island.
In 1997The holy brotherhood has constructed a small chapel, after dedicated to Saint John the Brotherhood began selling coffeeWonderworker, a main temple, CEO Howard Shultz dedicated to the Holy Protection of Starbucks Corporation sued for trademark violation the Mother of their coffee "Christmas BlendGod, a large trapeza," as the brotherhood distributed Metropolitan Laurus Memorial Library, a product with the same namegift shop and bookstore, and seven monastic cells.  The holy brotherhood won supports itself by producing a line of gourmet coffees, under the court case and also gained so much fame from the case to raise funds to begin building their katholikonbrand name, Monastery Blend Coffee, which can be ordered through the Chapel of the Protection of the Holy Theotokosbrotherhood's website: http://www. The story is featured in the film ''This Land''vashonmonks.com
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