Ampleforth Abbey
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Ampleforth Abbey, North Yorkshire, is a monastery of Benedictine Monks in the English Benedictine Congregation. It claims descent from the pre-Reformation community at Westminster Abbey through the last surviving monk from Westminster Sigebert Buckley.
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[edit] Ampleforth College
The monastery set up a school at Ampleforth in 1802. It is now a co-educational independent boarding school with around 600 students.
[edit] Parishes
In addition to the work at Ampleforth, some of the monks are sent as parish priests to parishes, mostly in Lancashire.
[edit] St Benet's Hall, Oxford
Ampleforth has a Permanent Private Hall at Oxford, primarily for the purpose of training priests and religious, but which also accepts some undergraduate students.
[edit] Saint Louis
Ampleforth set up a sister priory at St Louis, Missouri in 1955. The priory gained independence in 1973 and became a monastery in its own right in 1989.
[edit] Zimbabwe
In 1996, Ampleforth set up the community of Christ the Word in Zimbabwe.
