Francis Valentine Woodhouse
Francis Valentine Woodhouse ( February 14, 1805 , † February 3, 1901 ) was an apostle of the Catholic Apostolic Churches .
He studied in Oxford at Eton College and at Exeter College of Law , was in 1829 as a lawyer (barrister) at the Inner Temple in London and is a member of the English Bar . The future apostle only worked as a lawyer for a few years. In February 1842 he married Henrietta Liston Laurie. He was of Anglican descent but was one of Edward Irving's early followers . He was ordained underdeacon and later deacon in his ward and elder on April 14, 1833 by John Bate Cardale . On August 13, 1834, he was the sixth person to receive the prophetic call to the apostleship in the London council. After a renewed appointment, he took his place in the council on September 17, 1834. At the age of 29 he was the youngest apostle of the Catholic apostolic congregations . He was assigned the "tribe" of southern Germany and Austria, where he also worked in part.
In 1901, Woodhouse was the last of the Albury Apostles to die. Five days later he was buried in Albury in the local cemetery next to the first appointed Apostle Cardale.
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- The apostolic work of the end - Ludwig Albrecht, Berlin, 1924
- Building the Church of Christ on the Original Foundations - Ernst Adolf Roßteuscher, Basel, 1886
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| SURNAME | Woodhouse, Francis Valentine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Apostles of the Catholic Apostolic Congregations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1805 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1901 |