The second of two English brothers has been ordained to the priesthood for the Institute of Christ the King at the Institute’s seminary in Gricigliano, Italy.
Canon Joseph McCowen was ordained to the sacred priesthood by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke, along with five other men, on July 3. His brother, Canon Michael McCowen, had also been ordained at Gricigliano by Cardinal Burke just two years earlier. Both brothers entered seminary at the age of 18.
The brothers are well known to the Catholic community at Ss Peter & Paul and St Philomena in New Brighton—popularly known as “The Dome of Home”—and at St Walburge’s in Preston.
