21 Jul 2025

Following our announcement back in March, the Community of St Gregory the Great has moved to Hereford to begin a two-year period of living together with the monastic community of St Michael and All Angels at Belmont Abbey. 

We are grateful to Abbot David and the Buckfast community for their generosity in giving us the use of their former retreat house for the last three years as we continued our discernment. 

Whilst during this trial period St Gregory’s will remain a separate and independent entity under the provisions of Canon Law, we will be fully integrated into a shared life and mission with the community at Belmont working together towards an aspiration of forming a single, united community at Belmont. Together we hope to explore fresh ways of providing the pastoral care and formation that have always marked the English Benedictine Congregation.  

St Gregory’s community remains committed to their current pastoral outreach undertaken by the monks in the United Kingdom and abroad, through their oblates and parish. We continue to work with Historic England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund in preserving, sharing and developing the important heritage that we are still responsible for at Downside Abbey.