Mount Saint Bernard

Leicester, United Kingdom / Male

Location

Official nameMount Saint Bernard Abbey
Number15
AddressCoalville, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Contact Information

Telephone[44] (1530) 832298
Telephone 2[44] (1530) 832022
Community emailmonks@mountsaintbernard.org
Guesthouse emailguesthouse@abbeymsb.fsnet.co.uk
Websitewww.mountsaintbernard.org
SuperiorDom Joseph Delargy, Abbot 2023

Other Information

Juridical statusAbbey
DioceseDioecesis Nottinghamensis (Nottingham)
OCSO regionISLES
OriginsThe pioneers of Mount St. Bernard Abbey were all professed religious, English or Irish, of Melleray. Some came directly from France whilst others had spent a short time in Ireland. Melleray regarded this abbey as its first daughter house and made the regular visitations of Mount St. Bernard until the transfer of paternity in 1858.
History
  • 1844: Blessing of the abbey church
  • 1848: Affiliation to the Cistercian Congregation
  • 1935: Laying of foundation stone of new church
  • 1945: Consecration of church
  • 1964 Dom Ambrose elected Abbot Vicar.
  • 1974: Dom Ambrose Southey is elected Abbot General.
Father immediateMelleray 1835 – 1858; Mount Melleray 1858-1972; thereafter New Melleray
Daughter houses[Bamenda] (1963-); Whitland (since 1968).
Lay associatesCistercian Associates of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey
Past superiors
  • Odilo WOOLFREY — Superior — ?/ ?/1835 – ?/ ?/1839
  • Benedict JOHNSON — Superior — ?/09/1839 – ?/ ?/1841
  • Bernard PALMER — Prieur — — ?/ ?/1841 – ?/ ?/1849
  • Bernard PALMER — Abbot — 18/02/1849 – 10/11/1852
  • Bartholomew ANDERSON — Sup.provisoire — 25/03/1859 – 01/01/1863
  • Bartholomew ANDERSON — Abbot — 01/01/1963 – 02/03/1890
  • Wilfrid HIPWOOD — Abbot — 20/08/1890 – 20/02/1910
  • Louis CAREW — Provisional Sup.? — 04/66/1910 – 02/06/1927 (v.19)
  • Celsus O’CONNELL — Sup.ad nutum — ?/ ?/1927 – 19/09/1929
  • Celsus O’CONNELL — Abbot — 19/09/1929 – 01/05/1933 (v.14)
  • Malachy BRASIL — Abbot — 17/07/1933 – 12/05/1959
  • Ambrose SOUTHEY — Abbot — 09/07/1959 – 07/05/1974
  • Cyril BUNCE — Abbot — 07/06/1974 – 07/06/1980
  • John MOAKLER — Sup.ad nutum — 10/06/1980 – 04/02/1982
  • John MOAKLER — Abbot — 04/02/1982 — 01/05/2001
  • Joseph DELARGY — Abbot — 11/06/2001 — 11/06/2013
  • Erik VARDEN — Superior ad nutum 2013; Abbot 2015-2019
  • Joseph DELARGY — Abbot 2020 – 29/04/2022
  • Peter Claver CADDY — Superior ad nutum 19/05/2022 – 27/07/2023
TransportationStation : Loughborough.
FoundationsBamenda (1963)
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