There are expressions of both Greek and Russian Orthodox piety and rule in our community. Our bishop is His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory of Boston.
Our monastery is under the jurisdiction of the Holy Orthodox Church in North America (HOCNA), following the traditional ecclesiastical calendar of the Orthodox Church (commonly known as the Old or Julian calendar). The entire property comprises 19 acres, most of it wooded. Adjoining the main house is a coach house, which is now used for living quarters.
As the number of monks grew, however, it became necessary to look for new quarters, and in 1970 the community found and acquired our present house, a three-storey mansion built in 1881, after a plan inspired by a 17th Century Scottish manor. In 1961 the community acquired a modest three-storey house in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts that was then quite adequate for the few founding fathers. The Holy Transfiguration Monastery began in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1960.
