Ealing Abbey - Priors and Abbots

Priors and Abbots

The following monks have served as Prior and, since elevation to the status of Abbey on 26 May 1955, Abbot:

Tenure Office Incumbent Notes
Prior Dom Wulstan Pearson Consecrated as the first Bishop of Lancaster, 25 February 1925
Prior Dom Benedict Kuypers
Prior Dom Edward Green Headmaster of Ealing Priory School 1917-1919
Prior Dom Mark Pontifex
Prior Dom Stanislaus Chatterton
Prior Dom Ambrose Agius Member of Ealing Community at independence from Downside, December 1947
Prior Dom Charles Pontifex Member of Ealing Community at independence from Downside, December 1947; appointed as the first Abbot
Abbot Dom Charles Pontifex Resigned following a car crash; died 1976
Abbot Dom Rupert Hall Headmaster of Ealing Priory School 1939-1945; member of Ealing Community at independence from Downside, December 1947; died 1974
Abbot Dom Francis Rossiter
Abbot Dom Laurence Soper Arrested in 2011 on child abuse charges
Abbot Dom Martin Shipperlee

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