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R. Dom Peter Williams
After visiting Worth Abbey, he felt a strong sense of being called to join the community, which he duly did the following year (1994). After being professed he was ordained a priest in 2000 and started working in Worth School. There, as well as being a house chaplain he also ran the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and coached the fencing team. His last 7 years in the school were spent as the senior chaplain.
Between 2021 and 2026, Fr. Peter was the monastic Prior and was also responsible for running the Worth Retreat Centre programme in the retreat centre – St Bruno’s. Fr Peter is a gifted retreat giver and is also a spiritual director. He has also practised tai chi for many years and enjoys walking.
Fr. Peter’s story is one of spiritual awakening, leading him to a life of service and helping others on their own faith journeys.
He moved to the Monks in the City in St John the Baptist Brighton in January 2026 as the Superior of the new monastic team
R. Dom Patrick Fludder
Fr. Patrick grew up in a Catholic family in West Sussex, though he felt disconnected from his faith during his early education in Catholic schools. In secondary school, he spent weekends with the RAF cadets' gliding school and this meant missing regular parish mass.
At university, Fr. Patrick rediscovered faith through events with an evangelical Christian group, the Navigators, which led him to embrace his religious roots after a transformative experience nine months later.
Encouraged by friends, Fr. Patrick explored a calling to the priesthood. Though the secular priesthood didn’t appeal to him and his friends, a visit to Worth Abbey inspired a new path. There, they felt drawn to monastic life, and he and his friends launched the Worth Abbey Lay Community (now the Lay Community of Saint Benedict), integrating laypeople into monastic life. Fr. Patrick later joined the Worth Abbey monastic community, finding purpose in Benedictine prayer and communal living. His journey deepened through studies in Collegeville, Minnesota, and a unique practice he calls "Lectio Divina on the land" in which he connects with God through being in places of spiritual, historical and personal significance.
He was assigned to the new monastic team in Brighton by Abbot Mark in January 2026, returning to his childhood area by the sea
R. Dom Aidan Murray
Dom Aidan was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1948. After leaving University he worked as an industrial research Chemist. He entered Worth Abbey in 1978, took Final Vows in 1982 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1983.
Benedict Week 2023: In this podcast D. Aidan talks to the Lay Community of St Benedict about the Worth Mission in Brighton. He discusses with Discipleship Coordinator Mary Hirst the monks' life and work in the city, and why he thinks St Benedict is worth celebrating.
