Silverstream Priory
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Benedictines |
| Established | 2012 |
| Diocese | Meath |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Mark Daniel Kirby |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Active |
| Site | |
| Location | Stamullen, County Meath, Ireland |
| Public access | Yes |
Silverstream Priory is a Roman Catholic monastery in Stamullen, County Meath, Ireland, founded in 2012. The monastery is an autonomous diocesan priory of the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration.
Mark Daniel Kirby (b. 1952) is the founder and, as of 2017, the superior.
The community's history began in Oklahoma in 2007, when Bishop Edward James Slattery of the Diocese of Tulsa invited Mark Daniel Kirby, then a Cistercian monk, to form a monastery with the mission of providing spiritual assistance for the Roman Catholic clergy. In 2009, a year designated by Pope Benedict XVI as a "year of the priest", the bishop inaugurated the community under the title Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle. In 2011, flooding in Tulsa made the community's residence uninhabitable, and Fr. Kirby obtained Bishop Slattery's permission to move the community.
In autumn 2011 the monks were invited by Bishop Michael Smith to relocate to the Diocese of Meath. In March 2012, the community moved into a former religious house in the village of Stamullen in County Meath. Based on a local geographical name, they adopted the name Silverstream Priory for the monastery.
In February 2017, the community reached a milestone with the formal approval of its constitutions by the Holy See, leading to the canonical establishment of the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration as a monastic institute of consecrated life in the diocese of Meath. This made Silverstream Priory the first new monastery in the county since the abolition of monasteries under Henry VIII in 1536.
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