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Website. www.kofc.org. The Knights of Columbus (K of C) is a global [1] Catholic fraternal service order founded by Blessed Michael J. McGivney on March 29, 1882. [2][3] Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. [4] It is led by Patrick E. Kelly, the order's 14th Supreme Knight. [4][5] The organization is named after the explorer ...
Christopher Columbus is the patron and namesake of the Knights.. Taking the name of Columbus was partially intended as a mild rebuke to Anglo-Saxon Protestant leaders, who upheld the explorer (a Genovese Italian Catholic who had worked for Catholic Spain) as an American hero, yet simultaneously sought to marginalize recent Catholic immigrants.
Etienne J. Caire, Louisiana businessman, banker, Republican candidate for governor in 1928 against Huey Long. Ken Cuccinelli, former attorney general of Virginia, Republican candidate for Governor in 2013. James E. Finnegan, former attorney general of Wisconsin. John W. Griffin, politician from Ohio.
Michael J. McGivney. Michael Joseph McGivney (August 12, 1852 – August 14, 1890) was an American Catholic priest based in New Haven, Connecticut. He founded the Knights of Columbus at a local parish to serve as a mutual aid and insurance organization, particularly for immigrants and their families.
The Knights of Columbus were politically active from an early date. In the years following the Second Vatican Council, however, according to Christopher Kauffman, the Catholic anti-defamation character of the order began to diminish as Catholics became more accepted, and the leadership of the order attempted to stimulate the order's membership to become more aware of the religious and moral ...
The charitable activities of the Knights of Columbus include the time and money which are donated to charitable causes by the Supreme, state, and local councils of the Order of the Knights of Columbus. Charity is the foremost principle of the Knights of Columbus. At its 2019 convention, the supreme knight reported the Knights had donated $185 ...
Patrick E. Kelly is the fourteenth and current Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus. He was the founding executive director of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. In February 2021, he was elected by the board of directors to succeed Carl A. Anderson as the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.
Virgil C. Dechant GCPO GCSG KHS (September 24, 1930 – February 15, 2020) was the twelfth Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, a position he held from January 21, 1977, to September 30, 2000. Biography. Dechant was born September 24, 1930, in Antonino, Ellis County, Kansas, and lived in Leawood, Kansas.