{{monastery|name=Saint '''Petroc Monastery|jurisdiction=[[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|ROCOR ANZ]]|type=Semi-Eremitic Male Monastery|founded=1992|superior=Hieromonk [[Michael (Mansbridge-Wood)|Michael]]|size=One|hq=Cascades, Tasmania, Australia|language=English|music=[[Western Rite]], Sarum|calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|feasts=''Unknown''|website=[http://www.orthodoxresurgence.co.uk/Petroc website]}} Saint Petroc Monastery is was a semi-eremitic [[monasticism|monastic]] community for men in the [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] located in Cascades, Tasmania. The current It was [[superior is Hieromonk |headed]] by Fr. [[Michael (Mansbridge-Wood)|Michael]]for the duration of its existence, and follows followed the Sarum practise of the [[Western Rite]]. The Monastery consists of two affiliated houses: Saint Petroc House, with a small chapel, at Cascades; and Holyrood House, with a small chapel, at AvondaleIt no longer exists.

Saint Petroc Monastery was founded in 1992 as an Anglo-Catholic monastery. In 1995 it turned to Orthodoxy and, under instruction, was placed under the direction of Patriarch [[Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch|Ignatius IV of Antioch]]. In 1997, the monastery was received into [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia|ROCOR]], under the [[omophorion ]] of Archbishop [[Hilarion (Kapral) of Sydney|Hilarion of Sydney]], [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|Australia and New Zealand]], with the mandate to not only continue using the Sarum practise of the [[Western Rite]], but to do so with the explicit intent of attracting people of Anglo-Celtic ancestry to Orthodoxy through this rite. Fr Michael and Fr [[Barry Jefferies]], a married priest associated with Fr Michael, were baptised and ordained by Abp Hilarion to this end. The Monastery also received permission to create attached monastery missions and parishes[[parish]]es. In 1998, the monastery began one of these attached missions in Launceston, named for St . Stephen. In the same year, Fr Michael becomes a [[chaplain]] at the University of Tasmaniaand would go on to have other attached missions in various cities in Australia, England and Southeast Asia.

In 20031998, the Saint Colman Prayer Book, compiled by the monastery, is authorised for use in ROCORFr. In June of the next year, the Monastery calls Michael was appointed a meeting of Western Rite clergy in Australia and New Zealand - which included the priests attached to the monastery and two [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania|Antiochianchaplain]] clergy - to discuss at the future University of Western Rite Tasmania by Abp Hilarion; this service concluded after the University of Tasmania sold the chaplaincy building in Australasia2011.

<!In 2003, the Saint Colman Prayer Book, compiled by the monastery, is authorised for use in ROCOR by Abp Hilarion. In June of the next year, the Monastery called a meeting of Western Rite clergy in Australia and New Zealand -which included the priests attached to the monastery and two [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania|Antiochian]] clergy - ==Timeline==*200x - information -->to discuss the future of Western Rite in Australasia.

==External Links==*On [http://www[November 19]], 2010, [[Hieromonk|Hmk]] Michael was made the Assistant to the Metropolitan for Western Rite communities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, with Dom [[James (Deschene)]] similarly appointed in the Western hemisphere.orthodoxresurgence This arrangement continued for about six months.co.uk/Petroc/ Monastery homepage]