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The first Spiritan house in Scotland is opened at Uddingston in Glasgow. It thus becomes the most northerly house in the whole of the Congregation.

Erection of the new Vicariat of Kindu. It is made up of the northern part of Kongolo and the southern part of Stanleyville (Kisangani).

Cardinal Tisserant goes to several capitals in francophone West Africa to establish the new hierarchies set up by Mgr. Lefebvre C.S.Sp., the Apostolic Delegate. Henceforth the local Church is responsible…

The Vicariate Apostolic of Guyane becomes the Diocese of Guyane.

Brazil Province

The General Council confides the Federal States of Sao Paulo, Panama, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul to the German Province with a view to founding a new Province…

The Apostolic Prefecture of Saint-Louis regains its autonomy under Mgr. Landreau on January 28th, 1955. The boundaries are re-drawn, but it retains jurisdiction over Mauritania. Gorée is attached again to…

Five Mauritian priests are ordained at Mary Queen of Peace by Mgr. de Langavant, the bishop of Reunion. Bishop Liston of Port Louis was sick at the time.

P. Augusto Dias da Silva bequeaths a house to the Congregation in Avenida da Boavista in Porto. It becomes a centre for missionary awareness.

P. Augusto Nogueira is appointed Apostolic Administrator on the death of Bishop Faustino. He starts the diocesan seminary.

Irish Spiritans open a residence in Woodstock (Ontario) in Canada. This is the first step in the development of the new circumscription.

At Bandoung (Indonesia), 29 countries from Asia and Africa condemn colonialism, racial discrimination and nuclear weapons.

Establishment of the hierarchy in French Africa. On September 14, 1955, Mgr. Levebvre becomes the first Archbishop of Dakar. Henceforth, the local Church is responsible for the mission; the Congregation…

A national Marian congress takes place at Yaoundé. Throughout this year a statue of Our Lady travels to each mission in the Diocese.

The Spiritan Sisters leave Maha-janga. They had arrived there in May, 1927.

The Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary come to the Prefecture of Makurdi and help to run the combined hospital in Otukpo town.

Mgr. Michel Bernard, Vicar Apostolic of Conakry, is appointed Vicar of Brazzaville. He will live through many important events: the presidency of L'Abbé Fulbert Youlu (1958); independence (1960); the start…

Central African Republic

Bangassou is confided to the Dutch Province and becomes an Apostolic Prefecture, led by Mgr. M. Bodewes.

At Bafia, Mgr. Loucheur opens a professional school and a leprosium (at Nyamsong).

Bishop Herman van Elswijk resigns and is succeeded by the first African bishop in the diocese. There are 87 priests, 19 brothers and 168,000 Catholics in the diocese.

Opening of the Africa Museum at Berg en Dal. It receives a large number of visitors and becomes an important means of spreading missionary awareness.

A few Brothers and Fathers move into a new house at Berg en Dal. It will be used as a community for those studying at the university.

P. José Maria Felgueiras arrives in Madrid from Nova Lisboa (Angola) to take over responsibility for the works of the Congregation in Spain.

The hierarchy is established in Kenya.

The community moves to 12, de la Calle de los Olivos, Madrid 3, which will be the headquarters of the Congregation in Spain.

Fr Thomas Brosnahan from Nigeria and Ireland is appointed the first residential Bishop of Freetown and Bo. He undertakes a major campaign in the expansion of primary and secondary schools.…

P. Agostinho de Moura, the Provincial of Portugal, is appointed bishop of Portalegre and Castelo Branco.

The theologate moves from Viana do Castelo to Torre d'Aguilha. The first official act is the enthroning of the Blessed Sacrament.

Bishop Ambrose Kelly is the first Spiritan Bishop to die in Sierra Leone; he is buried in Free-town.

Fr. John Jordan founds the Holy Ghost Juniorate at Ihiala, the main source of vocations for the future Province.

Foundation of Collège Vogt at Yaounde and Collège Libermann at Douala (by P. Boulanger). It was confided to the Jesuits in 1956.

Fr. Dalkowski is arrested at Lesno. Several others are imprisoned for periods between one to seven years. By 1956 all have been released and the Junior Seminary is re-opened in…

The Senior Seminary (Libermann) is transferred from Popenguine to Sebikhotane; the students are from various diocese in Senegal and a few from Guinée Conakry.

German Spiritans take on responsibility for a mission territory in the south of Brazil.

The first two Nigerians make their profession in Ireland as Spiritans: Frs. Godfrey Okoye and Anthony Nwedo.

Bishop Ambrose Kelly welcomes the Xaverian Fathers from Italy into his diocese; they are given the care of the Northern Province, centered on Makeni.

The only priests in the country are military chaplains. The Church of Rosso is built by Fr. Salomon (Spiritan) but it is not occupied until 1958.

Death in Pittsburgh, USA, of P. Joaquim Alves Correia of the Portuguese Province. He had a great influence on the catholic renewal movement in Portugal during the time of the…

Publication of the first missionary encyclical of Pius XII, "Evangelii Praecones". The Pope praises the work accomplished by missionaries and sets them new tasks. He talks of the place of…

Fr Anthony Nwedo is the first Nigerian to profess as a Spiritan at Kilshane, Ireland. He had been ordained a diocesan priest in 1945. He was also the first Nigerian…

The Vicariat Apostolic of Fort-Rousset is created, with Mgr. Verhille as the first Vicar.

The jurisdiction of Tefé becomes a Prelatura Nullius, under the direction of Mgr. Joaquim de Lange.

Opening of the 11th General Chapter (July 24-5 August) with 82 capitulants. Fr. Francis Griffin of the Irish Province is elected the 17th Superior General of the Congregation.

The Holy Year. Many West Africans go on pilgrimage to Rome. Pope Pius XII announces the creation of the hierarchy of West Africa. Sierra Leone is made into a diocese,…

One half of the confreres in the U.S.A. are engaged directly in mission work with African-Americans (90), Africans in Kilimanjaro (51) and Puerto Ricans (26); the others are in ethnic…

Téfé devient une ‘Prélature Nullius’ sous la direction de Mgr Joaquim de Lange.

Fr. Joseph Whelan of the Irish Province is ordained Vicar Apostolic of Owerri in Onitsha.

Mgr. Georges Guibert becomes the auxiliary of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre at Dakar. Since October 23, 1948, the latter had also been Apostolic Delegate for French Africa.

Numerous vocations to the Holy Ghost Congregation from past students of the College. Eventually, 14 Trinidadians are to serve on the Nigerian mission, mainly with the Irish Spiritans.

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