Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord CR Founded 1884 PO Box 72, Grahamstown 6140 South Africa Tel & Fax: 046 622 4210

This Community was founded in 1884 by Bishop Allan Becher Webb and Cecile Isherwood to undertake pastoral and educational work in Grahamstown. These two types of work, and later Social Welfare work, have predominated in the Community’s undertakings throughout its history. The regular life of monastic Offices and personal prayer and intercession has always been maintained, both in the Mother House (Grahamstown) and all branch houses, wherever situated. It is still maintained in Grahamstown, the only centre where the Community life continues, our numbers being now much reduced, with a high proportion of elderly and infirm members.
Two Retreat Centres established by this Community have been taken over by other Communities: St Peter’s Bourne in north London; and Hillandale, near Grahamstown, which has been taken over by the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican Benedictine community for men, based in the USA.
Two schools, staffed entirely by lay teachers, remain under the management of the Grahamstown Community, the Bethlehem Pre-School being the Community’s Centenary Project..

Mother Carol CR (priest)
(Mother Superior, assumed office 13 November 1998)
Sister Zelma CR (priest) (Assistant Superior)

For further details, obtain a copy of
The Anglican Religious Communities Year Book.