Parishes & Outreach | Ampleforth Abbey

Ampleforth Abbey serves three parishes across the North of England:

Diocese of Middlesbrough

Our Lady and St Benedict, Main Street, Ampleforth village, YO62 4DA.

Tel 01439 787184

Fr Kentigern Hagan, OSB

St John the Evangelist, 151A Long Street, Easingwold, YO61 3JB.

Tel 01347 821295

Fr George Corrie, OSB

Our Lady and St Chad, Kirkbymoorside with St Mary, Helmsley

St Chad’s, 59 Piercy End, Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6DQ

St Mary’s, High Street, Helmsley, YO62 5AE

Fr Raphael Jones, OSB

Tel 07944 255541

Monastery of Christ the Word in Zimbabwe

In 1996 Archbishop Chakaipa and the Zimbabwean bishops invited the Ampleforth community to establish a monastery in Zimbabwe so that they could bring a monastic, religious presence to the country. Thus the Monastery of Christ the Word was founded at Macheke in the Archdiocese of Harare and is visited each year by the Abbot of Ampleforth.

The work of the monks resident was to be a centre of prayer and renewal in Zimbabwe, a living witness in a culture far removed from North Yorkshire.

Today our community at Christ the Word comprises four solemnly-professed monks (one a native of Zimbabwe).

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Nothing is to be preferred to the Work of God

— The Rule of St Benedict 43