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A meeting of Major Superiors at Doumé sets up a Council consisting of the directors of the formation houses and the Superior of FAC. They will meet once a month.

West African Foundation

At a meeting of West African Superiors at the Pastoral Centre in Banjul, it was decided that bilingual formation would no longer be maintained for WAF. From September 1984, the…

Pope John Paul II visits the French Seminary. During the 150 years since its foundation, the seminary has had 14 rectors, all of whom were Spiritans.

Neil McNeil Residence becomes the centre of the House of Spiritan Formation program (Laval House). Beginning of a seven-year resurgence in vocations.

The first twelve Boranas are baptised in Dadim.

First meeting of the new Provincial Council. Fr, Joaquim Ramos Seixas, who was the first Provincial of the Spanish Province, is re-appointed for a further mandate.

TransCanada Province begins work in Papua New Guinea (Frs. Kelly and Corrigan).

West African Foundation

From the beginning, the Foundation is both English and French-speaking. At the noviciate in Bwiam in the Gambia, in 1980, there are 6 novices from Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. Later,…

Archbishop Brosnahan retires at the age of seventy-five after fifty years in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Bishop Ganda of the Diocese of Kenema is transferred to the Archdiocese of Freetown…

A house is bought at Blanden for the mission procure. Another house is purchased at Veltem-Beisem for the Provincialate, and the Spiritans leave Leuven.

Foundation of the community at Sidi-Bel-Abbès by Père Claude Brehm. The Spiritans serve the small Christian community as well as doing various other works: teaching, classes in Arabic and French,…

Central African Foundation

The 3rd noviciate opens in Akono (Cameroon) and the following year, it finds a permanent home in Mbalmayo. Père Charrier is novice master until 1988. The number of novices steadily…

Opening of the first Noviciate of the West African Foundation at Bwiam. Four novices make profession on the 15 August 1981.

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 au Chapitre général de 1980, à...

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 General Chapter, 1980

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. p.14

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.

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