Saturday 13 August 2011

New Abbot at Pluscarden

To: "Pluscarden Abbey Pluscarden"
Date: Thursday, 11 August, 2011, 10:38
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To Dom Anselm,
At Nunraw we all pray that this new challenge will be a fruitful one for your community and an enriching one for you.With kind regards and God’s blessing

Pluscarden elects new Abbot


Pluscarden elects new Abbot | Abbot Hugh Gilbert, Bishop of Aberdeen, Fr Anselm Atkinson,Abbot of Plusgarden.

Fr Anselm Atkinson
 Following Abbot Hugh Gilbert’s nomination as Bishop of Aberdeen,   Fr Anselm Atkinson has been elected as the new Abbot of Pluscarden. He was born in Cardiff, in 1956 and brought up in Liverpool. He became a novice at the age of eighteen at Pluscarden. He is the only Pluscarden monk to have been sent to study at Rome. He attended the Biblicum while living at the Curia.

He then returned to Pluscarden where he taught scripture to novices and juniors, he was sent to  was sent to St Mary’s Monastery, at  Petersham, Massachusetts Abbey  to help Fr Cyril.  After Fr Cyril’s death he became Superior and has remained there ever since.  In 2003  Fr Anselm was elected Abbot Visitor of the English Province and followed this role throughout the world. He was elected Abbot of Pluscarden on 9 August.

                                               See also:  http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18349  

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