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Columba Cary-Elwes was born on 6 November, 1903 in Uganda, is an English Benedictine monk. Discover Columba Cary-Elwes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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1903

Dom Columba Cary-Elwes, OSB (born Charles Evelyn George Cary-Elwes; 6 November 1903 – 22 January 1994) was an English Benedictine monk who professed vows at Ampleforth Abbey in York, England.

As a missionary he travelled to Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and has written books on Christianity.

He was the founding prior of the Priory of Saints Louis and Mary (later Saint Louis Abbey) in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Born in London in 1903, Charles Evelyn George Cary-Elwes was one of eight children of Charles and Edythe Cary-Elwes.

His father and maternal grandfather, Sir John Roper Parkington, were champagne shippers, the family all speaking fluent French.

1913

He was educated by the Jesuits at Saint Michel, Brussels, between 1913 and 1914, and then at Ampleforth College, a leading Roman Catholic school in England, then worked in the family wine business until in 1923 he was clothed in the Benedictine order at Ampleforth, his abbot giving him the name of Columba.

1925

In 1925 he professed his simple vows and the following year made his solemn vows.

1927

In 1927 he matriculated at Oxford to study modern languages (French and Spanish) at the university's Benedictine foundation, St Benet's Hall.

1930

After graduating in 1930, Cary-Elwes went on to study theology at Blackfriars, London, until 1933, when he was ordained a priest.

1937

He then returned to Ampleforth, where he served as Monastic Librarian, as a language teacher in the school, and as housemaster of St. Wilfrid's House (1937–51).

He led services at the chapel at Helmsley for several years.

1951

In 1951, he was appointed Prior of Ampleforth, and four years later, was selected to be the founding prior of the new foundation at Saint Louis, where he served until June 1967.

1968

Columba left in 1968 for East Africa to conduct spiritual retreats and inquire about establishing a monastic foundation in that region.

In 1968, his travels took him to Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

1969

During 1969, he taught at a major seminary in Nairobi.

1970

In 1970, he served as French interpreter during the Pope's visit to Uganda, after which he returned to Ampleforth.

1972

In 1972, he was "loaned" (as his Ampleforth obituary describes it), to the Benedictines of Glenstal Abbey in Ireland, to help establish a monastery in Eke, Nigeria, in 1974, where he served as Prior beginning in 1975.

Columba was a close friend of the noted historian Arnold J. Toynbee, who educated several of his sons at Ampleforth.

1986

In 1986, their correspondence, edited by the Saint Louis lawyer Christian Peper, is collected in An Historian's Conscience.

During this period he also helped to establish a Catholic seminary in Cameroon.

In his later years, he returned to Ampleforth, but made ecumenical and spiritual renewal visits to Catholic communities and clerical establishments in the Philippines, Australia, India, and Chile.

1992

At nearly 90, he was appointed the Titular Abbot of Westminster in 1992.

1994

Dom Columba Cary-Elwes died on 22 January 1994, aged 90, at York Hospital.

He was buried at Ampleforth.

Columba Cary-Elwes is related to the painters Dominick Elwes and Simon Elwes and the diplomat and tenor Gervase Cary Elwes, respectively the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of the actor Cary Elwes, the painter Damian Elwes, and the film producer Cassian Elwes.