St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church is a

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Church in Brookwood,

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, 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

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s 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: *A small monastic community who chant the services of the church daily at the shrine *Orthodox Christians who form a mission parish. These Christians supplement the congregation on Sundays and

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s. St. Edward's is currently under the jurisdiction of the

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(GOC-K), a

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True Orthodox Church headed by

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Kallinikos of Athens. It became part of this jurisdiction in 2014 following the merger of the

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, of which it had been a part since leaving the

Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (russian: Ру́сская Правосла́вная Це́рковь Заграни́цей, lit=Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, translit=Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov' Zagranitsey), also called Ru ...

in 2007, with the GOC-K. Edward the Martyr Plaque Brookwood

The church follows the Julian calendar and does not maintain communion with the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church. This church is in communion with the Old Calendar Orthodox Churches of Bulgaria and Romania and that part of the

which did not unite with the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. In May 2007, it represented nearly one million traditionalist Orthodox Christians. The GOC-K mainatains that it is a scholarly branch of

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that follows original doctrines of Christianity. The Brotherhood and church body claim to look in their lives to the spiritual heritage and example of the Russian Orthodox peoples and the many

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s of Britain, particularly those of the formative Kingdom of England who lived in the first ten centuries after the

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Transport links

;Rail The church is south-east of Brookwood railway station via a main path. ;Road The church is south of Junction 3 of the M3 and is close to the gates of the country's largest cemetery, on the

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