Order of the Holy Paraclete

The community began in 1915, when it was founded by Margaret Cope (1886–1961) at the Mother House of St Hilda's Priory, Sneaton Castle, Whitby.

In January 1915, St Hilda's School re-opened at Sneaton Castle, Whitby, and the new Order was provisionally named The Society of the Holy Spirit.

This encouraged the building of a proper Chapel, as the room which was being used for this purpose is found at the top of the South Tower, accessible only by a stone spiral staircase.

Mother Margaret had sought help from Fr Lucius Carey of the Society of St John the Evangelist in finalising the legal document of the Constitution.

The Order also has houses elsewhere in Yorkshire, with Sisters in York and Redcar as well as St Oswald's Pastoral Centre in Sleights, near Whitby.