Dom Nicholas Elected Abbot of Downside
August 26, 2020
We are sorry to lose one of our monks
This morning the monks of Downside held an abbatial election and elected Dom Nicholas Wetz to be Abbot of Downside. He resumes the role with immediate effect.
Two years ago Dom Nicholas left Belmont to help the community out as Prior Administrator. He had previously been claustral Prior here, and parish priest of the Belmont Parish. He joined Belmont in 1985 and had been in the Abbey School.
We wish him and the Downside Community all the best in the years ahead. Perhaps it is a happy repayment to Downside. Abbot Aelred Kindersley, a Downside monk, became the first Abbot of Belmont exactly 100 years ago this summer.
Please pray for Dom Nicholas and all the Downside community.
At a solemn Mass, the feast of St Basil and St Gregory, Br Alban makes his promises as a claustral oblate.
Belmont Abbey Organ is the second largest organ in the County of Herefordshire. It has 3 manuals (keyboards) and 54 stops and is second only to the organ of Hereford Cathedral (4 Manuals and 67 stops) - Belmont has the largest organ in our Catholic Diocese.