The monks of Belmont Abbey have elected Dom Brendan Thomas to be their new abbot.
During his 8-year tenure, the new abbot will oversee a community of just under 40 monks; Belmont Abbey’s daughter house is the Monastery of the “Sanitsima Trinidad” in Lurin, Peru. Fr Brendan will become the abbey's 12th abbot following his selection by the monastic community on 4 June 2024.
Founded in 1859 as the common novitiate for The English Benedictine Congregation, Belmont was raised to the status of an Abbey in 1920, and is in the Archdiocese of Cardiff, located close to the border of England and Wales.
