Don Mark Patrick Hederman, OSB, former Abbot of Glenstal Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland, is a Benedictine monk, teacher, lecturer and writer. Formerly headmaster of the school at Glenstal, he was later named academic dean.
Hederman comes from Ballingarry, the second son in a family of four. [1] Of Glenstal, he said in 2009, "I came here as a boy to school when I was twelve years of age, and apart from about ten years of my life spent in Africa, America and other parts of Europe, I have never lived anywhere else. ... It only existed as a monastery thirty years before I arrived." [2]
Dom Patrick earned a doctorate degree from UCD [1] in the philosophy of education. He has lectured in philosophy and literature outside Ireland, most notably in the United States and Nigeria.
Hederman helped found the cultural journal, The Crane Bag.[ citation needed ] With Richard Kearney he edited the two-volume collection The Crane bag book of Irish studies. (Dublin : Blackwater/Folens, 1982). [3]
The election as fifth Abbot of Glenstal [1] by the community of Benedictine monks, to an eight-year term, "came as a shock to those who knew him and his work because of the maverick figure that he is in the Irish Church." [4] Also, at 64, Hederman was the oldest to be chosen for the position since the monastery became an Abbey in the 1950s. [1]
In a piece published in early 2011, Abbot Hederman was quoted by novelist and writer Russell Shorto speaking about the sexual-abuse scandals in the Irish Catholic Church. [5]
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