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 The Saint Edward Brotherhood was established at Brookwood in 1982 to prepare and care for the Church in which the sacred relics of Saint Edward the Martyr were to be enshrined. A small monastic community, which we hope will increase, chants the services of the Church daily at the Shrine, and their numbers are augmented on Sundays and feastdays by a number of Orthodox believers who form a mission parish. The monastery is located on St. Cyprian's Avenue, Brookwood, Surrey GU24 0BL, England. Since the schism of the Roman Church in the eleventh century there has been no indigenous Orthodox Church in this country, and so those English people who have turned to Orthodoxy have, of necessity joined one of the Churches from Eastern Europe which have established parishes here: the Greek, Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches. Our community is under the spiritual direction of Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili. In receiving and enshrining the sacred relics of Saint Edward the Martyr, however, we bear witness to the fact that for many centuries the light of Orthodoxy shone in these isles, and we look back with gratitude and filial piety not only to the spiritual heritage of the Russian Orthodox peoples, whose witness has kindled a love of Orthodoxy in our hearts again, but also to the spiritual athletes of our own land, who shone forth in piety in the first ten centuries of the Christian era. |
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The Monastery and Parish Church in Brookwood Please support the Saint Edward Brotherhood Building Fund. See photos of building progress here. See photos of the Concelebration on the Sunday of St. John of the Ladder 2008. See photos of the Blessing of the New Monastic House on 27th August, 2007. |
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King Edward the Martyr Download PDF of St Eadweard the Martyr - the Historical King, a talk given by Eadmund Aerealdor on 8 September, 2005. |
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