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About the Knights of Columbus

The Knights of Columbus (“KofC” or “the Society”) is a fraternal benefit society founded in 1882 by Blessed Michael J. McGivney, a parish priest in New Haven, Connecticut. Its corporate charter, issued by the Connecticut General Assembly in that year and amended several times since then, provides as follows:

The purposes for which said corporation is formed, always consistent with Catholic values and doctrine, are the following: (a) through a system of subordinate councils, along with regional, national, and international convocations, to raise up, support and encourage a fraternity whose members are practical Catholics united by their faith and by the principles of charity, unity, fraternity, and patriotism; (b) through common worship, charitable works, meetings, and rites of initiation, to form its members in Catholic faith and virtue; (c) to render pecuniary aid to its members, their families, and beneficiaries of members and their families; (d) to render mutual aid and assistance to its sick, disabled, and needy members and their families; (e) to promote social and intellectual interaction among its members and their families; (f) to promote and conduct educational, charitable, religious, social welfare, war relief, public relief, and other activities; and (g) to unite members in their Catholic identity and the practice of their Catholic faith.

Although the Society has grown from a small group of Catholic men in New Haven, Connecticut into an international insurance organization doing business in the United States and Canada, the Society remains focused on its primary mission – empowering Catholic men to live their faith and serve their family, parish, community, and country.

Business Operations in the United States and Canada

The Knights of Columbus is a regulated insurance entity that is licensed to do business in the United States (all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and Canada (ten provinces and two territories). As the Society does not have a physical presence in Canada, its Canadian Operation is a branch that operates from its Supreme Oﬃce in New Haven, CT.

About the Knights of Columbus

Business Operations in the United States and Canada

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