St. Gregory's Abbey (Oklahoma)
Benedictine monastery in Shawnee, Oklahoma / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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St. Gregory's Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery of the American-Cassinese Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation. The monastery, founded by monks of the French monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire in 1876, was originally located in present-day Konawa, Oklahoma and called Sacred Heart Abbey. At present the community numbers around twenty-one monks who celebrate the Eucharist and Liturgy of the Hours. They used to staff various parishes but no longer do so, and their school, St. Gregory's University, was closed and filed for bankruptcy in 2017.
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Monastery information | |
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Order | Benedictines |
Established | 1876 |
People | |
Founder(s) | Rev. Isidore Robot, O.S.B. |
Abbot | Rt. Rev. Lawrence Stasyszen, O.S.B. |
Prior | Rev. Boniface Copelin, O.S.B. |
Archbishop | Most. Rev. Paul S. Coakley |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Abbey |
Site | |
Coordinates | 35°22′05″N 96°57′12″W |
Saint Gregory's Abbey | |
Location | Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma |
Built | 1876 |
NRHP reference No. | 75001572 |
Added to NRHP | 08/15/1975 |
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The abbey is located in Shawnee, Oklahoma.