Cowley Father
noun
Cow·ley Father
\ˈkau̇lē, -li also ˈkül-\
Definition of Cowley Father
: a member of the Society of Mission Priests of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican religious community founded at Oxford in 1865 by the Rev. R. M. Benson (1824–1915)
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Origin and Etymology of cowley father
from Cowley, suburb of Oxford, England
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