The Order of Port Royal has established one
work in North America, The Priory of St.
Antony of the Desert.. Our Abbot General is
+Dom Klaus Schlapps of St. Severin's Abbey
Kaufbeuren, Germany.. Our Bishop Protector
and Episcopal Visitor is the Rt. Revd Jack L. Iker,
the Bishop of Fort Worth.Our Conventual Prior
is Dom Nelson Koscheski OPR., a priest in the
Diocese of Fort Worth currently serving as
priest-in-charge at St. John's, Brownwood,
Texas. Dom Mark North OPR, Dom Fidelis
Holman OPR, Dom Jonathan Pietschman and
Dom Gregory Geis OPR are the priest members
who also serve this priory. Dom Mark serves as
our community's spiritual director. He is a
retired ECUSA priest living in Buffalo, New
York. Dom Fidelis is a retired ECUSA priest
canonically resident in the Diocese of
Minnesota. Dom Jonathan is a priest serving
Holy Cross Anglican Church [CANA] in
Richmond Virginia. Dom Gregory is a priest of
the Christlich Katholische Synode von Port
Royal [in Germany] and currently serves as
Vicar General for North America representing
the German and European communities.
We also maintain a special relationship with St.
Benedict's Abbey in Bartonville, Illinois, the
Diocese of Quincy and Bishop Alberto Morales
OSB.
The Priory functions as an ecumenical outreach
of the Christian Catholic Synod of Port Royal
and exists to provide support for the practice of
contemplative Christianity and the exercise of
Cistercian spirituality in various traditionalist
configurations
The Order of Port Royal is currently developing
a program for professed clergy in this country.
Those interested in religious vocations should
contact the Conventual Prior, Dom Nelson
Koscheski or the Order's Abbot General,+Dom
Klaus Schlapps, at the Abbey of St. Severin's in
Kaufbeuren, Germany.
St. Severin's is a community of cloistered
monks and is the Order's principal
foundation. The monks of St. Severin's
operate the Kunstschule Allgau, a regional
fine arts college. You may read about their
work here. We have also created--and run--a
unique charitable project called Art Aid.
Our provincial Abbey in Germany has a small
Priory in Vintl, Italy. We also maintain
monastic chapels in Dresden, Kaufbeuren and
Buchsloe,Germany as well as supporting mission
work in Peru, Romania, Cameroon [where we
have 2 monasteries] and the Ukraine. We also
have a large Abbey in France, St. Mary Queen of
Heaven. and maintain an Abbey in HAITI, as
well as a mission in Guadeloupe.
We follow the Benedictine Rule and exercise
Cistercian spirituality with a special
apostolate for prayer and healing.
Ever faithful to the Rule of St. Benedict we
strive for loving relations with all Christians. If
our Lord could stretch out his arms on the
cross to all who might come, we believe that we
are called to gather all his children
around the altar. Correspondingly, our altars are
open to all who are baptized in the Name of the
Holy Trinity and desire to feed on the Bread
of Heaven truly present in the Eucharist..
"Is not the cup for which we give thanks a
participation in the blood of Christ? And is
not the bread that we break a participation in
the body of Christ? Because there is one
loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all
partake of the one loaf."
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
May the peace of God be always in your
heart...
+Abt Klaus Schlapps OPR
The Rt Rev'd Jack L. Iker
The Very Rev'd Nelson Koscheski OPR
Dom Mark North OPR
Dom Gregory Geis OPR
Dom Fidelis Holman OPR
Dom Jonathan Pietschman OPR
"The glory of God is the human person fully
alive."
St. Irenaeuse o
work in North America, The Priory of St.
Antony of the Desert.. Our Abbot General is
+Dom Klaus Schlapps of St. Severin's Abbey
Kaufbeuren, Germany.. Our Bishop Protector
and Episcopal Visitor is the Rt. Revd Jack L. Iker,
the Bishop of Fort Worth.Our Conventual Prior
is Dom Nelson Koscheski OPR., a priest in the
Diocese of Fort Worth currently serving as
priest-in-charge at St. John's, Brownwood,
Texas. Dom Mark North OPR, Dom Fidelis
Holman OPR, Dom Jonathan Pietschman and
Dom Gregory Geis OPR are the priest members
who also serve this priory. Dom Mark serves as
our community's spiritual director. He is a
retired ECUSA priest living in Buffalo, New
York. Dom Fidelis is a retired ECUSA priest
canonically resident in the Diocese of
Minnesota. Dom Jonathan is a priest serving
Holy Cross Anglican Church [CANA] in
Richmond Virginia. Dom Gregory is a priest of
the Christlich Katholische Synode von Port
Royal [in Germany] and currently serves as
Vicar General for North America representing
the German and European communities.
We also maintain a special relationship with St.
Benedict's Abbey in Bartonville, Illinois, the
Diocese of Quincy and Bishop Alberto Morales
OSB.
The Priory functions as an ecumenical outreach
of the Christian Catholic Synod of Port Royal
and exists to provide support for the practice of
contemplative Christianity and the exercise of
Cistercian spirituality in various traditionalist
configurations
The Order of Port Royal is currently developing
a program for professed clergy in this country.
Those interested in religious vocations should
contact the Conventual Prior, Dom Nelson
Koscheski or the Order's Abbot General,+Dom
Klaus Schlapps, at the Abbey of St. Severin's in
Kaufbeuren, Germany.
St. Severin's is a community of cloistered
monks and is the Order's principal
foundation. The monks of St. Severin's
operate the Kunstschule Allgau, a regional
fine arts college. You may read about their
work here. We have also created--and run--a
unique charitable project called Art Aid.
Our provincial Abbey in Germany has a small
Priory in Vintl, Italy. We also maintain
monastic chapels in Dresden, Kaufbeuren and
Buchsloe,Germany as well as supporting mission
work in Peru, Romania, Cameroon [where we
have 2 monasteries] and the Ukraine. We also
have a large Abbey in France, St. Mary Queen of
Heaven. and maintain an Abbey in HAITI, as
well as a mission in Guadeloupe.
We follow the Benedictine Rule and exercise
Cistercian spirituality with a special
apostolate for prayer and healing.
Ever faithful to the Rule of St. Benedict we
strive for loving relations with all Christians. If
our Lord could stretch out his arms on the
cross to all who might come, we believe that we
are called to gather all his children
around the altar. Correspondingly, our altars are
open to all who are baptized in the Name of the
Holy Trinity and desire to feed on the Bread
of Heaven truly present in the Eucharist..
"Is not the cup for which we give thanks a
participation in the blood of Christ? And is
not the bread that we break a participation in
the body of Christ? Because there is one
loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all
partake of the one loaf."
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
May the peace of God be always in your
heart...
+Abt Klaus Schlapps OPR
The Rt Rev'd Jack L. Iker
The Very Rev'd Nelson Koscheski OPR
Dom Mark North OPR
Dom Gregory Geis OPR
Dom Fidelis Holman OPR
Dom Jonathan Pietschman OPR
"The glory of God is the human person fully
alive."
St. Irenaeuse o
Dom Gregory Geis OPR
For I am sure that no man asketh mercy
and grace with true meaning but if mercy
and grace be first given him.
--Julian of Norwich
Be consoled, you would not seek me had
you not already found me.
--Blaise Pascal
and grace with true meaning but if mercy
and grace be first given him.
--Julian of Norwich
Be consoled, you would not seek me had
you not already found me.
--Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
| Dom Mark North OPR |
The Port Royal Family:
St. Severin's OPR Home Page
Congregation de Marie Reine
Brotherhood of St. Michael: The
OPR in Cameroon
Benedictine Home Page
Nordic Catholic Church
Priorat St. Wigberti
Congregatio Canonicorum Sancti
Augustini
Evangelische Bruderschaft
Kecharismai EBK - die
Blumenmönche,
Diocese of Fort Worth
Diocese of Quincy
St. Benedict's Abbey Bartonville
FIFNA UK
FIFNA US
Polish National Catholic Church
Alsike Kloster
Congregation de Marie Reine
Brotherhood of St. Michael: The
OPR in Cameroon
Benedictine Home Page
Nordic Catholic Church
Priorat St. Wigberti
Congregatio Canonicorum Sancti
Augustini
Evangelische Bruderschaft
Kecharismai EBK - die
Blumenmönche,
Diocese of Fort Worth
Diocese of Quincy
St. Benedict's Abbey Bartonville
FIFNA UK
FIFNA US
Polish National Catholic Church
Alsike Kloster
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
+Dom Klaus Schlapps
OPR, Abbot General
OPR, Abbot General
Dom Fidelis Holman OPR
| Die Mönche des Klosters (v.l. Br. Georg, Br. Gregor, P. Klaus, P. Michael und Br. Johannes. Im Vordergrund eine Wohltäterin aus dem Freundeskreis der Abtei) |
Br. Lukong Martin Mbiydzenyuy
OPR Brotherhood of St. Michael,
Cameroon
OPR Brotherhood of St. Michael,
Cameroon
Email: dom@fidelis-mail.com
Our Prior, Dom Nelson Koscheski OPR
| Sr. Alberta aus Südtirol, Sr. Monica aus Kaufbeuren und Abt Klaus. |
Dom Jonathan Pietschman OPR
| The Rt. Revd Jack L. Iker D.D. Our Bishop Protector in North America |