Father Francis Kline, OCSO, was the third Abbot of Mepkin Abbey[1] until his death on August 27, 2006. He is buried at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. He was a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York and he was a skilled organist.[2] He was in the process of trying to make the abbey more self-sufficient.[3]