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Cyril Cowderoy
Archbishop of Southwark
Cowderoy in 1949
ArchdioceseSouthwark
SeeSouthwark
Appointed12 December 1949
Installed21 December 1949
Term ended10 October 1976
PredecessorPeter Emmanuel Amigo
SuccessorMichael George Bowen
Orders
Ordination30 May 1931
Consecration21 December 1949
by Bernard William Griffin
Personal details
Born(1905-05-05)5 May 1905
Sidcup, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Died10 October 1976(1976-10-10) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
DenominationRoman Catholic

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.

Cowderoy was born in Sidcup, Kent, on 5 May 1905 and ordained a priest in Southwark on 30 May 1931 by Peter Emmanuel Amigo.[1]

Priestly Ministry

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After study in Paris he returned to serve in the diocese first as a teacher and then as Bishop's secretary.[2] He served as parish priest for a short time until he was appointed bishop in 1949 and consecrated by Cardinal Bernard William Griffin with George Beck (bishop) and Neil Farren as co-consecrators.[3]

Episcopal Ministry

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Southwark's Catholic cathedral was destroyed by in a 1941 bombing raid and so one of his immediate pastoral priorities was to re-contruct the cathedral.[4]

He attended all the session of the Second Vatican Council. On 28 May 1965, aged 60, he was appointed as the first metropolitan Archbishop of Southwark by Pope Paul VI. On the same date a new diocese Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton was created by carving out a large southern portion of his diocese.[5]

In recently revealed archives it is shown that in 1957 Cowderoy took a hardline approach from a Dutch priest and future Vatican Cardinal Johannes Willebrands to come and speak on ecumenism in his diocese. "I do not agree with it and I do not like it...if the Holy See leaves me to judge, I would say no."[6]

In 1968 he took a hard line on the controversial papal encyclical Humanae Vitae and disciplined a young priest in his diocese was called the document on artifical birth control "regrettable". Cowderoy's position was in contrast to the more moderate approsach of his fellow London Archbishop, John Heenan (cardinal).[7]

He was Grand Prior for England and Wales of the Knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

He died suddenly on 10 October 1976, aged 71 shortly after celebrating mass.[8]

Consecrator

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Archbishop Cowderoy consecrated or co-consecrated the following bishops (all deceased):

References

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  1. ^ "Archbishop Cyril Conrad Cowderoy [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Former Archbishops - Archdiocese of Southwark". www.rcsouthwark.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Archbishop Cyril Conrad Cowderoy [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  4. ^ "Former Archbishops - Archdiocese of Southwark". www.rcsouthwark.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Arundel Cathedral". www.abdiocese.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  6. ^ Walsh, Michael (14 May 2019). Look to the Rock: The Catholic League and the Anglican Papalist Quest for Reunion. Canterbury Press. ISBN 978-1-78622-058-5.
  7. ^ Corrin, Jay P. (30 November 2013). Catholic Progressives in England after Vatican II. University of Notre Dame Pess. ISBN 978-0-268-07700-6.
  8. ^ "MSGR. CYRIL COWDEROY". The New York Times. 11 October 1976. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
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