Stiperstones Trust

Welcome to the Holy Monastery of St Antony and St Cuthbert under the jurisdiction of his
Eminence Metropolitan Iosif, Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox diocese of Western
and Southern Europe.

The Monastery of St Antony and St Cuthbert is a hermitage within the Romanian jurisdiction of the Orthodox
Church, high up in the South-west Shropshire hills. Situated at 1,273 ft, under the Shepherd’s Rock on the
eastern slopes of the Stiperstones. Father Silouan lives alone, in what was once a miner’s cottage and small
holding of twenty acres of pasture and woodland. He lives a life of prayer, silent liturgy and work in the ancient
tradition of orthodox monasticism.

Priest-monk Silouan began monastic life almost twenty years ago, at the monastery of St John the Baptist at
Tolleshunt Knights in Essex, established by the late Archimandrite Sophrony, disciple of St Silouan the Athonite.
Like St Silouan, Fr Sophrony was a monk of Mt Athos in Greece, where monks have prayed the Jesus Prayer,
hallowing God’s name in their hearts for well over a thousand years.