Erik Varden OCSO (born 13 May 1974) is a Norwegian Catholic prelate, spiritual writer, and Trappist monk.

[2] He obtained a doctorate through the same faculty as a member of St John's College, Cambridge, and subsequently a Licentiate of Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

From 2011 to 2013 he was a professor of Syriac language, monastic history, and Christian anthropology at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome.

In 2015, Varden was interviewed as part of a BBC Four documentary, Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries, by Janina Ramirez.

On 1 October 2019, he was appointed by Pope Francis prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Trondheim in his native Norway, which had been vacant for the previous ten years.