Church of St Edward the Martyr, Brookwood

Church of St. Edward the Martyr
Church of St. Edward the Martyr
St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church
	The church from the southwest
	Church of St. Edward the Martyr
	51°17′58″N 0°37′27″W / 51.2995°N 0.6241°W
OS grid reference	SU9591256552
Country	England
Language(s)	English (chiefly), Greek, Church Slavonic, Romanian
Denomination	True Orthodoxy
Previous denomination	Russian Orthodox,; Church of England;
Religious order	Saint Edward Brotherhood
Website	saintedwardbrotherhood.org
Architecture
Architect(s)	Cyril Tubbs, Arthur Messer
Completed	1909

St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church is a True Orthodox Church in Brookwood, Surrey, England.

History

The monastic Saint Edward Brotherhood was established at Brookwood Cemetery in 1982 to prepare and care for a new church in a fitting grade I landscape^[1] in which the relics of Saint Edward the Martyr, the king of England who was murdered in 978 and who was succeeded by force by Ethelred the Unready, were eventually enshrined in 1988. It has two communities:

A small monastic community who chant the services of the church daily at the shrine.
'True Orthodox' Christians who form a mission parish.^[2] These Christians supplement the congregation on Sundays and feast days.^[3]

St. Edward's is currently under the jurisdiction of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece (GOC-K), a Greek Old Calendarists True Orthodox Church headed by Archbishop Kallinikos of Athens.^[3] It became part of this jurisdiction in 2014 following the merger of the Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance), of which it had been a part since leaving the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 2007,^[3] with the GOC-K.

The church is 600 metres (2,000 ft) south-east of Brookwood railway station via a main path.

The church is 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Junction 3 of the M3 and is close to the gates of the country's largest cemetery, on the A322 road.^[2]

↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1001265)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
1 2 "St Edward the Martyr". The Brookwood Cemetery Society. Retrieved 2022-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
1 2 3 "Saint Edward Brotherhood". Retrieved 2022-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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