The monastery was founded by
James Michael Patrick Deschene, O. S. B., a priest and literature teacher; Deschene died in 2020. Founded in 1993 in
Rhode Island in the United States, Christminster moved to
Hamilton, Ontario, in 2008, incorporating the
Oratory of Our Lady of Glastonbury as its monastery chapel. The oratory had previously been a mission of the
Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate in the
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America but since October 2007 has been within ROCOR. The monastery celebrates a daily round of services in the oratory, including Sung Mass on Sunday mornings and
Vespers and
Benediction on Sunday evenings. The Mass is the Divine Liturgy of St Gregory, which is based on the
Pre-Tridentine Mass. ==References==