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5am - Matins and First Hour.
:Breakfast, chores, quiet time.
9am - Third Hour.
:House meeting, work time.
Noon - Sixth Hour.
:Lunch, work, personal time.
3pm - Ninth Hour.
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==Timeline==
*1986 Jun - Fr Simeon goes on a retreat to Boscobel, erecting a [[chapel]]. People from the surrounding community join him in worship.
*1987 Apr - St. Isaac of Syria Skete founded; St. Nicholas Orthodox Mission Church founded.
*1991 Aug - [[Monastery of St. Silouan (Boscobel, Wisconsin)|Monastery of St. Silouan]] founded near the Skete.
*1994 Sep - St. Isaac's Orthodox School founded.
*2009 Apr - Fr. Simeon is deposed by Metropolitan Joseph of the Bulgarian Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia, and the antimens is withdrawn
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{{monastery|
name=St. Isaac of Syria Skete|
jurisdiction=[[Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia|Bulgarian]]''independent''|
type=Male Skete|
founded=1987|
superior=''vacant''Abbot [[Simeon (Gitlis)|Simeon]]|
size=5 monks|
hq=Boscobel, Wisconsin|
The community was founded in April 1987 with the arrival of Abbot Simeon Gitlis to the Boscobel area. The skete is an offshoot of Christ of the Hills Monastery (COTH) in Blanco, Texas, which at the time belonged to the Archdiocese of Vasiloupolis.
In time, a church, a school and the [[Monastery of St. Silouan (Boscobel, Wisconsin)|Monastery of St. Silouan]], a female monastery]] , were also constructed.
In 1991, COTH and the Boscobel skete were received into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia(ROCOR).
The skete returned its antimens [[antimension|antimins]] to ROCOR in 1999, after ROCOR withdrew its antimens antimins from COTH.
Some time later the community joined the [[Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia]].
In 2009 Gitlis was deposed by the Bulgarians, and the Bulgarian diocese withdrew its antimens antimins from the skete. The community is now operating without a bishop.
The community produces icons, keeps the church and mission structures, and conducts pastoral, charitable and [[missionary]] outreach.
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