Westminster Abbey (British Columbia)

For other uses, see Westminster Abbey (disambiguation).

Westminster Abbey is a community of Benedictine monks in Mission, British Columbia, established in 1939 from the Abbey of Mount Angel, Oregon. The abbey is home to the Seminary of Christ the King and is a member of the Swiss American Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation.

The abbey's official name is the Abbey of Saint Joseph of Westminster; Saint Joseph is the abbey's patron saint. The abbey was designed by the firm of Gardiner, Thornton, Gathe and Associates.[1]

Church of Westminster Abbey
  1. ^ Geoffrey Simmins, The Architecture of Two Benedictine Abbey Churches in Western Canada from University of Calgary retrieved 5 March 2015