Senegambia

The Foundation has its first Director in March 1982; Fr Peter Newman (Irish Province) takes up the responsibility of Director from the Superiors of Senegal and the Gambia who have…

Six Superiors of West African circumscriptions establish the Foundation at Dakar Senegal: the Superiors of The Gambia, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Makurdi and Kwara-Benue. Fr. John Hogan (Irish Province) is…

Père Picarda is appointed Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia. He arrives on November 14th and starts the pilgrimage of Our Lady of Deliverance at Popagine on December 29th, later to become…

Mgr. Bessieux lives for two years at Dakar, from which he administers both the Vicariats of the Deux Guinées (Gabon) and Senegambia (Dakar) after Mgr. Kob's, his coadjutor, has returned…

Date of a letter from Libermann to Eliman, the King of Dakar, after the death of Mgr. Truffet. In it he says, "I have given my heart entirely to the…

Père Gravière, the new Prefect Apostolic, lands at Gorée. A junior seminary is opened, following the instructions of Père Libermann. (The first Prefect was Père Tisserant, shipwrecked on 07.12.1845).

Mgr. Barron arrives in Monrovia with his two American companions, John Kelly and Denis Pindar. They reach Cap des Palmes on January 31, 1842.

Nineteen Spiritan delegates met from June 14 to 17, 2026 at the Foyer de Charité in Cap des Biches, near Dakar (Senegal), to hold the Enlarged Provincial Council of the…