Type: | Priest |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Venerable |
Robert Rowan | |
Dean of Ardfert | |
Church: | Church of Ireland |
Diocese: | Diocese of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe |
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Term: | 1924 to 1946 |
Ordination: | 1897 |
Birth Name: | Robert Philip Rowan |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1870 |
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Religion: | Anglicism |
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Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Dublin |
Robert Philip Rowan (10 September 1870 – 19 June 1946) was an Irish Anglican priest. He was Dean of Ardfert from 1924 until 1946.[1]
Rowan was educated at Trinity College, Dublin[2] and ordained in 1897. He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at Tralee and Wexford.[3] He was a chaplain to the forces at Curragh and Shorncliffe then senior curate at St John's Lowestoft. After incumbencies in Castleisland, Kenmare and Killarney[4] he was elevated to the Deanery. He was Archdeacon of Ardfert and Aghadoe and Canon of Effin from 1938 to 1943.