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General Chapter, 1980. no. 116

In the context of the wider changes of our times, the Foundations themselves share in the birth of a new missionary era in the Church. From different continents there is…

Indian Ocean Foundation

A meeting of young Mauritians and Malagaches in Reunion island.

Two Nigerians confreres arrive in Zambia to work in the diocese of Solwezi. Two more are appointed the following year but not as part of the Zambia international group.

P. Frans Timmermans, Supérieur général, Rapport...

Dès à présent la Congrégation doit accepter que l’Eglise d’origine fasse partie de la Mission. On ne peut pas malheureusement dire que c’est vrai partout. Il existe encore de profondes…

Fr. Timmermans: Report to the 15th...

We have taken the following conviction as basic in all our animation: a) It is false to say that from now on anything and everything is mission - that everything…

At Chevilly, 73 capitulants and 14 observers assemble for the 15th General Chapter. Père Frans Timmermans is reelected for a second mandate as Superior General. Discussions are grouped under four…

An international noviciate is set up at Farnham.

The death at Torre d'Aguilha of Moisés Alves de Pinho, Archbishop emeritus of Luanda. As Provincial, he had done much to restore the Province before he was appointed Bishop of…

Fr. Bernard Ngaviliau is ordained as the first bishop of Zanzibar diocese.

The Spiritans take charge of the parish of Linda on the outskirts of Livingstone.

Opening of the mission of Bajob in Guinée Bissau.

The death of P. José de Araújo; when he finishes his time as Provincial in Portugal, he returns to Spain where he has done so much for the establishing of…

Central African Republic

At the death of Mgr. Joseph Cucherousset, his coadjutor, Mgr. Ndayen, becomes Archbishop of Bangui.

An organisation for encouraging vocations is set up for the whole country. The team moves around Gabon and establishes camps at Sindara during the long school holidays.

Guinée Conakry

The Archbishop of Conakry, Mgr. Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, is released from prison after nine years detention.

The first associates of the Canadian Province make their formal commitment.

Père Jacques Laval is beatified by Pope John Paul II. His feast day is fixed for September 9th, the anniversary of his death.

West African Foundation

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…

The District of Auteuil, created by Mgr. Le Hunsec on 11.11.1943, is suppressed; Auteuil once again becomes part of the Province of France.

The Spiritan team presents itself to the people (elders) to start their work as evangelisers around Dadim. The elders agree that those who want to be baptised in the Catholic…

Tensions between Punjabi Christians and Marwari come to a head in Bheel Nagar (a suburb of Rahim Yar Kan) over a plot of land owned by a Marwari and taken…

Central African Foundation

The first 3 novices make profession at Yaoundé

Beginning of the re-implantation of Spiritans with the return of Raymond Gonnet to Oran. At first he teaches in an orphanage and then is involved in the foundation of an…

A new seminary is opened in Bayamón, and the students begin their formation with the Dominican Fathers. The first two Puerto Rican novices start their noviciate in Dorado, with Fr…

Tony Geoghegan, 31.07.1978, Spiritan Papers nº18....

The outstanding trait of Bishop Shanahan in regard to friendship and love is his constant refusal to separate theological and human love. He never feared 'particular friendships'. He saw everything…

L'Abbé Armand Razafindratandra is consecrated bishop of Majunga in the Cathedral square.

News arrives of the brutal assassination of P. José da Silva Pereira, aged 72, a Portuguese Spiritan who has been in southern Angola for 43 years.

A team from Spain and Portugal leave for Paraguay. They will reinforce the Spiritan international group and will be working in the mission of Lima in the diocese of San…

Ethiopia Gamu Gofa

The "Medhanie alem" (the Saviour of the world) Orthodox Clergy Training Centre at Chencha, Ethiopia, is established by Frs Jan Ermers, C.M., and Owen Lambert, C.S.Sp.

Arrival of the first 3 Spiritans in Rahim Yar Khan (RYK), a parish created in 1958.

Arrival of the first Spiritans in Pakistan: John Kitchen, John O'Brien and Eddie Flynn.

Frère Michel Pierre is shot at Dibwangui by a former worker of the mission who felt that his interests with the Social Security had not been adequately pursued.

The first Spiritan Associates in the Province make their commitment: Maria and Conrad Voisard.

The start of the international noviciate at Norwalk, serving the two Provinces in both Canada and the United States. In 1980, the noviciate moves to Farnham, Quebec.

International meeting of young Spiritans in the Spanish noviciate at Aranda from August 1st to 15th. There were 140 young confreres present from 30 different nationalities.

The first Spiritan noviciate at Essos. The novice master is Père des Déserts.

Foundation of the Provincial house for the Province of Angola. P. Bernardo Bongo is the Provincial.

The Angolan Province is created.

Ordination of Père G. Connerotte. Since then, there have been no more ordinations for the Province.

Foundation of the Province of Angola. The first Provincial is P. Bernardo Bongo.

Bishop Ivo Lorsheider, Secretary General of the National Conference of the Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) invites Fr David Regan to act as a full time consultant to that body for…

Following the assassination of the President of the Republic of Congo, Marien Ngouabi, Cardinal Emile Biayenda is also killed in mysterious circumstances. He had been coadjutor to Mgr. Mbemba (03.07.70),…

Joseph Lécuyer: Spiritan Papers no 3,...

Going over the writings of Poullart de Places meditatively (a thing we seem to do seldom today) and abstracting from their dated style, there comes across a sense of great…

The general meeting of the Apostolic Vicariate of Gimma accepts the principle that all the apostolate in Gamo-Gofa, while assisting the existing Catholics, will be conducted with and through the…

At a meeting of the Major Superiors of central Africa in Bangui, it was decided to launch the Central African Foundation (FAC).

First meeting of the Major Superiors of North America and the Caribbean in Puerto Rico.

Riots between Bestsirebaka and people of the Comores result in the death 1,400 Comorians at Mahajanga. The government of the Comores repatriates 14,500 of its nationals by plane and boat.

A meeting of all African Spiritans at Yaoundé.

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