Cyril Conrad Cowderoy (5 May 1905 - 10 October 1976) was a priest for over 45 years and a bishop for over 26 years in the Roman

Catholic Church in England and Wales The Catholic Church in England and Wales ( la, Ecclesia Catholica in Anglia et Cambria; cy, Yr Eglwys Gatholig yng Nghymru a Lloegr) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. Its origins date from the 6th c ...

. Born in

Sidcup Sidcup is an area of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, bordering the London Boroughs of Bromley and Greenwich. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in the ...

, Kent, on 5 May 1905, he was consecrated and ordained as parish priest in

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on 30 May 1931 by Cardinal Bernard William Griffin and Bishops Beck and Farren. On 12 December 1949 he was appointed Bishop of Southwark. In 1964, he opened St. Michael and All Angels Catholic Church, in

Locksbottom Locksbottom is a suburb of south-east London within the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London. Prior to 1965 it was within the historic county of Kent. It is located south of Bromley Common, west of Crofton, north-west of Farnborough, and ...

, Kent, inside of which is a commemorative plaque. On 28 May 1965, aged 60, he was appointed as the first metropolitan

Archbishop of Southwark The Archbishop of Southwark (''Br'' �sʌðɨk is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark in England. As such he is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Province of Southwark. The archdiocese has an area of and covers the Lon ...

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. He was Grand Prior for England and Wales of the Knights of the

Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani, links=yes, OESSH), also called Order of the Holy Sepulchre or Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, is a Catholic order of knighthood under ...

. Archbishop Cowderoy died in office on 10 October 1976, aged 71.

Consecrator

Archbishop Cowderoy consecrated or co-consecrated the following bishops (all deceased): *Bishop Bernard Patrick Wall *Bishop Charles Joseph Henderson *Bishop

John Farmer Healy John Farmer Healy CBE (1900−1973) was a Jamaican-born Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Gibraltar from 1956 to 1973. Born in Kingston, Jamaica on 3 December 1900, he was ordained to the priesthood on 11 June 1927. He was ...

*Bishop David John Cashman *Bishop Langton Douglas Fox *Bishop

Alan Clark Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Tr ...

External links

*http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcowderoy.html *http://www.rcsouthwark.co.uk/permdiac.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Cowderoy, Cyril Conrad 1905 births 1976 deaths People from Sidcup 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United Kingdom Participants in the Second Vatican Council Members of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre Roman Catholic archbishops of Southwark