Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor
The Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor is a religious order of sisters in the Anglican Communion. It was founded in 1851 and is active in England and the United States. In 2009 all but two of the American sisters were received into the Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic All Saints Sisters of the Poor became a religious institute in 2011. History The Society was established in 1851 in the parish of All Saints, Margaret Street in London by Harriet Brownlow Byron. The sisters were employed in parish work, particularly among the poor and underprivileged. The convent in Margaret Street, Westminster, still stands; the convent chapel by G. E. Street (1860) is Grade II listed. In 1879, Father Richard Meux Benson invited the All Saints Sisters to Cowley in east Oxford to run the St John's Home hospital. The foundation stone for St John's Home was laid by Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (son of Queen Victoria) in 1873. In Oxford, the Sisters continued with similar parish work. Michael Ramsey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, died in the St John's Home in 1989. In July 2014, the sisters of the All Saints Convent in Cowley, welcomed