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East African Province

The first group of East African Foundation Novices make their temporary profession. They are Liberatus Kundy, Daniel Macha, Paul Chuwa and Alois Minde.

Mgr. Robert de Chevigny is appointed the second bishop of the diocese and is ordained at Chevilly on 23.02.1974. He retires in 1995 and is replaced by a Missionary of…

The only Spiritan house in Scotland is transferred from Uddingston to Carfin; it will continue with vocations work and youth apostolate. The first superior is Scottish Spiritan, Fr. Frank O'Donnell.

Start of a new noviciate at Bydgoszcz.

Spiritans join the Calgary diocese in a mission outreach to Malawi, where as many as five Spiritans and two Calgary Diocesan priests eventually worked together (until 1983).

The community at Ste. Foy moves to 2121 rue de La Somme. A house in Hull opened the year before but it has to close in 1975. The Spiritan house…

The first group of Novices are received into the Noviciate: this marks the beginning of the East African Foundation (at Usa River, Tanzania).

Frs. Edward Kelly and William Jackson set out to open a mission of first evangelisation at Dadim among the Borana people; it is a joint undertaking with the Dutch Province.

Frs. Kelly, Jackson and Nass travel to Ethiopia and establish themselves in Addis Ababa.

Closure of junior seminary at Weert. The senior scholasticate also closes at Gemert, because of the small number of students; those remaining attend the faculties of Heerlen, Nijmegen and Amsterdam.

A local bishop takes over the running of the diocese; henceforth, the diocesan clergy have prime responsibility for the pastoral care of the diocese.

4 Irish confreres start missionary work, first in Lusaka Diocese (Kabwe), then in Livingstone Diocese; nine more Spiritans join the group in the two dioceses (parishes, diocesan seminaries, schools).

The first team of Spanish Spiritans leaves from Lisbon for the mission of Balombo in the Diocese of Benguela, Angola. A second team goes to the mission of Camacupa in…

The first meeting of the European Provincials takes place in the Senior Seminary of San Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona).

7 Tiv priests are ordained by Bishop Donal Murray, among whom is the one who will eventually succeed him as bishop of Makurdi, Fr. Athanasius Atule Usuh.

Fr. Francis Okonkwo, the first Nigerian novice master, reopens the noviciate at Awo Omama at the end of the civil war with 35 novices.

Congo Brazzaville

Death of Mgr. Théophile Mbemba, the first local Archbishop of Brazzaville. He is succeeded by his coadjutor, Mgr. Biayenda.

Inauguration of the "Instituto Poullart des Places", the Spiritan formation community in the Vila Mangalot district of São Paulo.

The Spiritans take over the parish of Kasiya (Monze Diocese).

The first three Spiritans arrive; seven more will follow during 1971. A special appeal is made by the Archbishop for staff for the Minor Seminary so as to upgrade it…

Papua New Guinea

The presence of Spiritans in PNG starts in 1971 when seven priests from the Irish Province who have worked in Nigeria arrive in the Mount Hagen area. These pioneer Spiritans…

The arrival of the first three Spiritans at Tanlajas (in the State of San Luis Potosi) in the newly-created diocese of Cuidad Valles. The local people are Tenek Indians (Huastecos),…

The first group of Spiritans (6 Irish confreres) arrives in Zambia and starts working in the diocese of Monze, run by the Jesuits.

Pontifical Council for the Instruments of Social Communication: Communio et Progressio, January,...

Every communication must comply with certain essential requirements, and these are sincerity, honesty and truthfulness. Good intentions and a clear conscience do not thereby make a communication sound and reliable.…

Guinée Conakry

Mgr. Tchidimbo C.S.Sp., the Archbishop of Conakry, is arrested for "plotting" and imprisoned at Boiro: he will not be released until August, 1979. In December 1979, Mgr. Sarah becomes the…

St Michael's College, Dublin, founded in 1944 as a primary school for Blackrock College, now becomes an independent community, operated as a full second-level educational facility.

St. Pierre & Miquelon

The islands become an Apostolic Vicariat. On the same day, Père François Maurer is appointed the first bishop.

The first session of the Provincial Chapter begins in the senior scholasticate of San Cugat del Valles in Barcelona. The second session in June 1971 draws up the Directory of…

Père Clément Cailleau becomes the first Prefect Apostolic of Tambacounda. Eastern Senegal is again confided to the Spiritans until it is made into a diocese in 1989.

The first Irish Provincial Chapter takes place at Blackrock during the first two weeks of the month.

Two hospital chaplaincies are taken on: St. Joseph's, Hamilton, and St. Joseph's, Dundas.

The Volunteer International Christian Service (VICS) is founded by Fr. Des McGoldrick.

The last session of the Provincial Chapter at Gemert which had begun in 1969. The Chapter opts for a collegial administration with a pro-vincial team of 5 members.

The District of Sierra Leone/Gambia is split in two. Gambia becomes a District on its own.

The Province joins the Association of exclusively missionary Congregations and the service for missionary animation formed by the same group.

As the civil war ends, about 300 Irish Spiritans, and all other foreign missionaries whose passports are stamped by the Biafra Republic, are expelled from the country and forbidden to…

At the request of the Superior General, Père Joseph Lécuyer, all 20 Spiritans leave the country.

The General Council decides to withdraw all Spiritans from Haiti. The parishes are handed back to the diocesan authorities.

The Spiritans in Dakar, Senegal, start a centre for the Mandjaque people who have come to the city. This eventually results in the founding of stations at Bajob (1979) and…

Under the anti-Communist laws, the Gov-ernment expels five Haitian Spiritans from their country: Antoine Adrien, Jean-Paul Claude, Max Domi-nique, Paddy Pou and Ernst Verdieu. The Collège Saint Martial is taken…

Inauguration of Maison Libermann as the residence of the Principal Superior in Gabon. During his time as Superior General, Mgr. Lefebvre urges all Districts to have a house that belongs…

The General Council appoints P. Joaquin Ramos Seixas as the Provincial of the new Province of Spain.

Fr John Fitzpatrick is installed as parish priest of São Sebastião parish in the rapidly growing city of Suzano in the diocese of Mogi das Cruzes.

Fr. Ailbe O'Brien, with Séan Ryan as assistant, is installed as parish priest of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Via Alpina, on the east side of Sao Paolo city. This is…

Mgr. Margeot is named bishop of Port-Louis. He is ordained on May 14 at the monument of Mary, Queen of Peace, at Port-Louis.

Brazil Province

The first Spiritan candidate from the junior seminary at Salete arrives in San Paolo and starts philosophy with the Redemptorists.

Joseph Lécuyer, Superior General, 11.01.1969, before the second session of the General...

Our renewal has two main objectives: to reinvigorate the spiritual life of each member of the Congregation and to relocate our missionary work in the context of the present needs…

Joseph Lécuyer, Superior General: Convocation to the 2nd session of the Chapter,...

The dominant tendency (of the first session of the Chapter) was to give priority to life over law: in the light of the concrete reality of our missionary life, some…

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