biography
| name: |
Dowie, John Alexander
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1847–1907)
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| biography:
| Religious leader, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He emigrated to Australia in 1860 and became a Congregational pastor in Sydney. In 1888 he emigrated to the USA, where he organized the Christian Catholic Church in Zion (1896). He became a faith healer, and proclaimed himself ‘Elijah the Restorer’, in 1901 founding near Chicago the prosperous industrial and banking community called ‘Zion City’. He was deposed from his autocratic rule there in 1906. |
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