Patrick Hederman

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.

Biography

Hederman comes from Ballingarry, the second son in a family of four.

Dom Patrick earned a doctorate degree from UCD 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. With Richard Kearney, he edited the two-volume collection The Crane bag book of Irish studies. (Dublin : Blackwater/Folens, 1982).

The election as fifth Abbot of Glenstal Also, at 64, Hederman was the oldest to be chosen for the position since the monastery became an Abbey in the 1950s.