Holy Cross Monastery (Wayne, West Virginia)

Holy Cross Monastery (Russian: Крестовоздвиженский монастырь) is an English-speaking men's monastery in Wayne, West Virginia under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the Diocese of Eastern America & New York. The abbot and confessor of the monastery is Igumen Gabriel.

Holy Cross is a growing monastery consisting of more than two dozen monks, novices and candidates living a traditional monastic life of prayer and manual labor. There are 25 monastics in the brotherhood as of October, 2017, as well as several candidates and lay workers.

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