Ralph Wright

Ralph Wright, OSB is a Benedictine monk at Saint Louis Abbey in Saint Louis, Missouri. A noted hymnist and poet, Father Ralph was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1938. He received his early education at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire and later spent two years in the British Army. He studied the classics at Oxford University and theology at Fribourg in Switzerland before being ordained a priest in 1970. At his abbot's request, he left England to join Saint Louis Abbey in the United States where he has lived for over forty years. Currently, he is Vocations Director at the Abbey and teaches Theology, Creative Writing and Tennis in St Louis Priory School.