Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (1890–1958) was the

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of Western China from 1925 to 1933, and Archbishop of Sydney from 1933 until his death in 1958.

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Mowll was born in

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and attended

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until 1903 and later matriculated at the

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.'' Who was Who 1897–1990'', London,

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, 1991, . As a staunch

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, upon returning from the mission field of

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(

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), Mowll experienced early difficulties in a predominantly liberal church before rising to national prominence during the war years. In 1947 he was elected

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of Australia. Within a month of World War 2 starting he had formed the

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, or CENEF, which was supported with volunteers and fundraising by the Sydney Diocesan Churchwomen's Association. CENEF funded huts for recreation and chaplains in military camps around Sydney, as well as at

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and other churches around Sydney. To continue to help ex service people after the war and youth work, CENEF raised funds to buy 201 Castlereagh St Sydney, and Rathane in the Royal National Park. CENEF leveraged the Castlereagh st building to buy land at Gilbulla and 117 acres in Castle Hill for a retirement village. This retirement village was one of his great achievements (some say his wife Dorothy was the driving force behind the idea), and became the first retirement village in Australia. Today this site remains the flagship for

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. In 1947, following the War, he was elected

of Australia.

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