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History of the AbbeyThe 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 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 September 21, 1980, Schema-Abbot John was consecrated Bishop of the Northeast (USA) by First Hierarch Metropolitan Joseph and Archbishop Hilarion of Texas. Since then the abbey has housed the diocesan offices and the St. Gregory Orthodox Liturgical Press. Many ecclesiastical dignitaries have visited the abbey during its existence, including Archbishop Hilarion of Australia (ROCOR) and Bishop Germaine of Paris (ECOF). The Blessed Elder (Schema-Bishop) Theodore (Irtel) of Old Valaam lived the last 7 years of his life at the abbey and reposed there on November 21, 1997.
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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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
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
