Church of St Edward the Martyr, Brookwood explained

Church of St. Edward the Martyr
Other Name:St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church
Coordinates:51.2995°N -0.6241°W
Osgraw:SU9591256552
Country:England
Denomination:True Orthodoxy
Religious Order:Saint Edward Brotherhood
Language(S):Greek, Church Slavonic
Relics:Edward the Martyr
Architect:Cyril Tubbs, Arthur Messer
Completed Date:1909

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

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 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:

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. 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, with the GOC-K.

Transport links

RailThe church is south-east of Brookwood railway station via a main path.
  • RoadThe church is 6miles south of Junction 3 of the M3 and is close to the gates of the country's largest cemetery, on the A322 road.

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