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COWLEY FATHERS

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 348 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
COWLEY FATHERS , the name commonly given to the members of the Society of Mission Priests of St John the Evangelist, an
Anglican
  religious community, the headquarters of which are in England, at Cowley St John, close to
Oxford
 . The society was founded in 1865 by the Rev. R. M. Benson " for the cultivation of a
life
  dedicated to God according to the principles of poverty, chastity and obedience." The society, which is occupied both with educational and missionary
work
 , has a
house
  in London and branch houses at Bombay and
Poona
  in India, at Cape Town and at St Cuthbert's,
Kaffraria
 , in
South
  Africa; and at Boston in the United States of America. The costume of the Cowley Fathers consists of a black frock or cassock confined by a black cord and a
long
  black cloak.


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