DOWIE, JOHN ALEXANDER (1847-1907 ), founder of the "Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion," born in Edin burgh, and went as a boy to Australia with his parents. He re turned in 1868 to study for the Congregationalist ministry at Edinburgh University, and subsequently became pastor of a church near Sydney, Australia. Imbued with belief in his powers as a healer of disease by prayer, he moved to Melbourne, where he founded "The Divine Healing Association of Australia and New Zealand." In 1888 he went to America, preaching and "healing," and in spite of opposition and ridicule attracted a number of ad herents. In 1896 he established "The Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion," with himself as "First Apostle"; and in 19o1, with money liberally contributed by his followers, he founded Zion City, on a site covering about Io sq.m. on the west shore of Lake Michigan, with a central Zion Temple. In 1903 and 1904, in the course of a visit to the branches of the Christian Catholic Church throughout the world, he appeared in London, but was mobbed. In April 1906 a revolt against his domination took place in Zion City. He was charged with peculation and with practising polygamy, and was deposed, with the assent of his own wife and son. Dowie was now broken in health and unmistakably insane; he was struck with paralysis and died in Zion City in March 1907. Dowie was succeeded by Wilbur Glenn Voliva.