Orthodox Church in America • Archdiocese of Canada
Alberta Deanery
📍 Smoky Lake County (Dickie Bush), Alberta
Founded 2009
The Hermitage of Prophet Elias is a monastic community consisting of Stavrophore Monk Tikhon (Greene), (who resides in Edmonton Alberta - about and hour and half away), and Archimandrite Gerasim [Power], as the current ruling abbot, who keeps the home fires burning onsite at the current residence in Smoky Lake, Alberta, Canada. The original site of the monastery/hermitage was near the village of Bellis - about 20 minutes from the Hermitage’s current home base in Smoky Lake. The original monks,...
Founded: 2009