About the Convent

Priests and sisters blessing the convent grounds after the Liturgy on the feast day, 2012

Archbishop Ioasaph (Skorodumoff) founded the community in 1935 as a small brotherhood of men. In 1953 nuns who had left Shanghai after the Communist revolution took it over.

In 1993 Abbess Amvrosia (Martens) and her mother, Nun Theodora, came from Australia to restore it.

The convent stands on eighty acres of pine and birch beside a small lake, 106 km southwest of Edmonton.

The priest is Hieromonk Dionisije (Dimitrijević), who lives on the grounds.

Draft text built from public directories. The sisters should correct it before it goes live.