Fr. Philip Dowley CM, (Dean Dowley) was an Irish priest and Provincial of the Vincentians in Ireland. He was born to Maurice Dowley and Nora Corbett in 1788, Ballyknock, outside Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Waterford. In 1812 entered Maynooth as a student for his native diocese of Waterford. He was Junior then Senior appointed Dean of Maynooth College but left it in 1834 to help set up the Vincentians in Dublin. He was just appointed vice-president of Maynooth in 1834 but resigned to follow four students who had left Maynooth to set up the Vincentians. Dean Dowley became their leader. In 1840 Fr. Dowley and two others made their novitiate in Paris.
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