Robert Philip Rowan (10 September 1870 – 19 June 1946) was an Irish

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priest. He was Dean of Ardfert from 1924 until 1946. Rowan was educated at

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and ordained in 1897. He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at Tralee and Wexford. He was a

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to the forces at Curragh and Shorncliffe then senior curate at St John's

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. After incumbencies in Castleisland, Kenmare and Killarney"The Church of Ireland in County Kerry" Murphy, J.A. p243: Cork, Lulu, 2016 he was elevated to the

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. He was

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of Ardfert and Aghadoe and Canon of

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from 1938 to 1943.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowan, Robert Philip 1870 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish military chaplains Deans of Ardfert Archdeacons of Ardfert 1946 deaths Archdeacons of Aghadoe Place of birth missing