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How to Become a Knight

Thank you for your interest in the Knights of Columbus.  Why should you become a knight?  

If you're interested in helping those in need, serving you parish, growing in your faith and brotherhood, or having exclusive access to top-rated insurance protection for your family, then the Knights of Columbus is the organization for you.

Becoming a Knight of Columbus can transform your life. As a Knight, you have the opportunity to support your parish, give back to your community growing your faith and gain exclusive access to our top-rated insurance program to protest you and your family. 

These are some of the reasons to become a Knight.

We are a band of brothers, a network of men in communities around the world dedicated to doing good in the service of God and our neighbor.

What we provide:

  • SERVICE
  • Support for the parish with its needs.
  • Help meet the needs of those in our local community.
  • Provide "Coats for Kids" and "Food for Families"
  • Support programs that benefit people with intellectual disabilities.
  • Aid victims of natural disasters and other catastrophic events, local and worldwide. 
  • Donate wheelchairs to people without mobility at home and abroad. 
  • Save lives through initiatives such as the "Ultrasound Program".

Charity is the first principle of the Knights of Columbus. Knights are men who get things done. We volunteer our time to serve our parishes and our communities. By working together, we are able to donate more than $1.4 billion and 664 million volunteer hours to worthy causes in the past decade. 

  • SUPPORT
  • A unique "band of brothers".
  • Shared Values and the support to live out our Catholic faith more fully.
  • The ability for our network to accomplish things together that we could not accomplish alone.


Unit and Fraternity are the second and third principles of the Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus was founded so that men could work together to serve their parishes and communities, protest the well-being of their Catholic families, and support each other in faith in many other ways along life's journey. The Knights of Columbus offers its members the opportunity to grow in their faith through living the example of a charity that evangelizes and personifying what it means to be a Catholic gentleman through the practicing of good works.

  • STABILITY
  • Exclusive access to our top-rated life insurance products, available only to members and their families.
  • Your insurance agent is a Knight dedicated to helping his brother Knights protect their families.

As a Knight, you and your family have exclusive access to our top-quality insurance products, in fact, no other North America is more highly rated than the Knights of Columbus. As an organization founded to protect the well-being of Catholic families, we have continued to take the mission seriously for more than 130 years. Generations of Catholics have counted on the Knights of Columbus, and in an increasingly turbulent world, you can trust the Knights of Columbus to affordably and securely protect the future of your loved ones and to be there when you need us most.

For 130 years the Knights of Columbus has provided all of the opportunities in this brochure and more for its members.

The Knights of Columbus is not just a fraternity in name. It is a brotherhood of Catholic men who each play a part in improving the world around them, one community at a time. They stand in faith, dedicated to upload the principles they cherish while landing their support and strength to parish, home and fellow Knight.

From charity for worldwide causes, to helping closer to home with volunteering activities, to a top-rated insurance program that protects those closer to you, the Knights make the most of its brotherhood. Mae a stand among them, and you can discover how easy it is to make a difference in your life and that of others.

Make a stand among them, and you can discover how easy it is to make a difference in your life and that of others.

STEPS TO BECOMING A KNIGHT OF COLUMBUS

  •  Complete the form below, after which a Knight will contact you.
  • Have a conservation with him about the Knights of Columbus in your community.
  • Browse the website for more information on the Knights of Columbus as a whole. 
  • Complete a Membership Document - the Knight who contacts you will be able to give you one.

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