Catholic Benevolent Legion

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| abbreviation = CBL

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| successor = Knights of Columbus

| formation = 1881

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| dissolved = 1969

| type = Catholic fraternal service

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The Catholic Benevolent Legion was a Roman Catholic benevolent society providing life insurance{{CathEncy|wstitle=Catholic Benevolent Legion}} founded in New York in 1881. A parallel Catholic Women's Benevolent Legion was founded in 1895.{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=John Talbot|title=The Catholic Church in New York: A History of the New York Diocese from Its Establishment in 1808 to the Present Time|date=2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=9781605202785|page=456|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xD06tNyZ7awC&dq=catholic+benevolent+legion+knights+of+columbus&pg=PA455|accessdate=14 October 2017|language=en}}{{cite book|title=Statistics, Fraternal Societies|date=1914|publisher=Fraternal Monitor|page=192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukoMAQAAMAAJ&dq=catholic+benevolent+legion&pg=PA238|accessdate=14 October 2017|language=en}} The Legion merged with the Knights of Columbus in 1969.{{cite web |url= http://www.nfcanet.org/pdf/mergers_changes.pdf |title= NAME AND STATUS CHANGES OF FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100215125057/http://www.nfcanet.org/pdf/mergers_changes.pdf |archivedate= 2010-02-15 }} {{small|(356 KB)}}, National Fraternal Congress of America