Joseph Leycester Lyne, known by his religious name, Father Ignatius (November 23, 1837 — October 16, 1908) was an Anglican Benedictine preacher.
He was educated at St Paul's School and Glenalmond College; commenced a movement to introduce monasticism into the Church of England, and built a monastery for monks and nuns at Capel-y-ffin a few miles above Llanthony Priory in the Black Mountains, Wales near Abergavenny. Members of the movement followed the rules and wore the garb of the Order of St. Benedict.
In his work and ministry, Fr. Ignatius is linked with Joseph Rene Vilatte and with Eduard Herzog (Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland) who played pivotal roles in the developmental of non-papal Catholicism. Fr. Ignatius tried to build an abbey in Norwich prior to the establishment of the monastery at Capel-y ffin, although this Benedictine establishment failed.
Fr. Ignatius was heavily ridiculed by many of his contemporaries, though the Anglican diarist Francis Kilvert described Fr. Ignatius in his diary as 'a man of gentle simple kind manners, excitable, and entirely possessed by one idea. [...] His head and brow are very fine, the forehead beautifully rounded and highly imaginative.' [1]
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.