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Our MotherhouseThe Abbey of the Holy Name is a Western Rite monastery of the Old Calendarist Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe & the Americas (Holy Synod of Milan) established in West Milford, New Jersey with the blessing of Metropolitan William in 1973 and Metropolitan Joseph prior to his repose in 1990. The abbey was the continuing monastic institution which succeeded St. Dunstan's Priory in Woodstock, New York, following its destruction by fire in 1948, and its temporary relocation thereafter to Overlook Mountain, which is still the present site of the Milan Synod Western Rite Orthodox Parish of the Holy Transfiguration.
Prior to its entering into the Holy
Synod of Milan, in 1997, the churches connected with the abbey constituted the
Western Rite Exarchate of the
Russian Patriarchal Church
under Exarch William. Due to alleged manipulations of KGB interference they left
the Moscow Patriarchate and came into communion with the
Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church in Exile
under Archbishop Palladios, one of the founders of SCOBA. Under Palladios'
leadership permission was granted to establish this Western Rite church on its
own as the Synod of Orthodox Bishops of the Western Rite with parishes
and The Western rite Christ the Saviour Monastery – or Christminster within the Russian Orthodox Outside Russia (MP) has the same roots as the Abbey of the Holy Name, contrary to its own historical account. Dom Augustine Whitfield was part of the aforementioned St. Dunstan Priory in Woodstock, NY until about 1972. It was then that Dom Augustine established the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Royal in Jacksonville, Florida within the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). He retired in 1993 at which time Dom James Deschene was blessed by Archbishop Hilarion of Australia (then, Bishop of Manhattan) to establish Christminster in Providence, Rhode Island. In 2008 Dom James has relocated Christminster to Ontario Canada in Hamilton. Dom Augustine Whitfield remains in retirement in fair health for a man in his 90s and is cared for by a visiting monk of the Milan Synod. authored
by Rev. Stavrophoremonk Symeon with assistance of His Eminence Archbishop +JOHN originally published: OrthodoxWiki
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St.
Dunstan's had been moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1940 by Metropolitan William
when he transferred the priory and his see from Waukegan, Illinois. In 1973,
Schema-Abbot John (LoBue) was elected by the St. Dunstan community to replace
Abbot Augustine Whitfield when the latter established the Monastery of Mount
Royal in Jacksonville, Florida. Schema-Abbot John was assigned to find a new
location for the abbey, which was moved later that year to West Milford, New
Jersey. In 1978, the name of the abbey was changed to Abbey of the Holy Name
and, on
monasteries in America, Great Britain and (then) Yugoslavia. In 1972,
after the repose of Abp. Palladios, these churches severed all relationship with
the
