Cyril Cowderoy

Cyril Conrad Cowderoy ( born May 5, 1905 in Sidcup, London, † October 10, 1976 in Southwark ) was Archbishop of Southwark.

Life

Cyril Conrad Cowderoy studied at St. John 's Seminary in Wonersh and received on 30 May 1930, the ordination. He taught in Mark Cross, and in 1937 became assistant to the diocesan secretary and later secretary and in 1946 chancellor of the diocese of Southwark.

Pope Pius XII. appointed him on 12 December 1949 for the Bishop of the Diocese of Southwark. The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Bernard William Griffin, donated to him on 21 December 1949, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Neil Farren, Bishop of Derry in Ireland, and George Andrew Beck AA, Coadjutor Bishop of Brentwood. With elevation of the diocese of Southwark to the archbishopric he was called by Pope Paul VI. appointed Archbishop on 28 May 1965.

Cyril Conrad Cowderoy was a Council Father of all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. He was from 1956 to 1977 Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy of England and Wales of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem.