Mount Saint Bernard
Location
Official Name Mount Saint Bernard Abbey
N° 15
Country United Kingdom
City Leicester
Address Coalville
Postcode LE67 5UL
Contact Information
Telephone [44] (1530) 832298
Telephone 2 [44] (1530) 832022
Community Email [email protected]
Guesthouse Email [email protected]
Website www.mountsaintbernard.org
Superior Dom Joseph Delargy, Abbot 2023
Other Information
Juridical Status Abbey
Diocese Dioecesis Nottinghamensis (Nottingham)
OCSO Region ISLES
Founded/Restored 1835
Origins
The 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.
Foundations
Bamenda (1963)
Father Immediate
Melleray 1835 – 1858; Mount Melleray 1858-1972; thereafter New Melleray
Daughter Houses
[Bamenda] (1963-); Whitland (since 1968).
Lay Associates
Cistercian Associates of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey
Important Figures
Ambrose Southey
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
Transportation
Station : Leicester or Loughborough.
