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Spiritan Education Forum November 2021
WORKING WITH SPIRITANS AND IN SPIRITAN SCHOOLS IN TANZANIA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES LOUIS AND ZÉLIE MARTIN OF COLMAR-ALSACE FRANCE
November 1, 2021
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Spiritan Education Forum June 2021
Olkokola Vocational Training Centre, Arusha, Tanzania The Province of Madagascar in the streets of Antananarivo IN GABON — A Home for the Homeless: C.E.M.I
June 1, 2021
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JPIC Newsletter 8 – June 2019
Spiritan Forum on Interreligious Diologue Zanzibar, 3-9 December 2018
June 1, 2019
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Spiritan Education Forum June 2018
- Re-Embracing the Education Apostolate: A Powerful Tool for Evangelisation - Following in the Footsteps of our Founder-Okura Holy Ghost College - Character education: Proposing a paradigm for analysing the…
June 1, 2018
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JPIC Newsletter nº 2, March 2016
Spiritan Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation and InterReligious Dialogue - REFLECTIONS ON THE “JUNGLE” - BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ESPACE JARROT - SPIRITAN DIARY FROM NYARUGUSU CAMP - KEEP IT IN…
March 1, 2016
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Tanzania
Fr Augustine Shao is ordained Bishop for the Diocese of Zanzibar in Zanzibar. He is the first member of the East African Province to be ordained a Bishop; Bishops Joseph…
April 27, 1997
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Bagamoyo
The number of confreres continues to decrease and so the circumscription can no longer operate as an independent district. Henceforth it becomes a Group under the jurisdiction of the General…
February 24, 1993
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East African Province
The first Chapter of the Province begins. Fr. Augustine Shao becomes the first elected Provincial.
November 25, 1990
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Netherlands
The first lay associate signs a contract with the Congregation on leaving for Tanzania. Another follows shortly afterwards.
June 9, 1990
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Bagamoyo
The end of the District of Bagamoyo. The remaining group of Dutch confreres now come directly under the General Council.
February 2, 1990
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C.S.Sp.
The 4th Enlarged General Council takes place at Arusha, Tanzania. There are 49 Spiritans present.
May 8, 1989
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E.A.F.
The East African Foundation becomes the East African Province with Fr Daniel Macha as its first Provincial.
February 2, 1989
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Tanzania
Fr. Bernard Ngaviliau is ordained as the first bishop of Zanzibar diocese.
June 5, 1980
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Tanzania
Paul Chuwa is the first member of the East African Foundation to be ordained a priest: it takes place at Usa River in Arusha Diocese.
June 24, 1976
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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.
January 3, 1974
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East African Foundation
The Districts of Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Bagamoyo have been co-operating for some time with a view to setting up the East African Foundation. The first noviciate starts in 1973 and…
October 21, 1973
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E.A.F.
The first group of Novices are received into the Noviciate: this marks the beginning of the East African Foundation (at Usa River, Tanzania).
January 10, 1973
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Tanzania
Fr. Adrian Mkoba, born and educated in the diocese, is consecrated bishop in the cathedral of Morogoro.
July 2, 1967
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Tanzania
At the urging of five Tanzanian Spiritans, the District chapter of Kilimanjaro adopts the project of creating an East Africa Foundation, the first stage leading to our present Province of…
June 26, 1965
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Tanzania
The Prefecture of Same is separated from the Diocese of Moshi and confided to the Dutch Spiritans. The first Prefect if Mgr. Henry Winkelmolen.
June 24, 1964
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Tanzania
Tanganyika becomes independent. In 1964 it joins with Zanzibar and takes the new name of Tanzania.
December 9, 1961
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Tanzania
Fr Joseph Kilasara is ordained a Bishop in Rome. He is the first East African Spiritan Bishop as well as the first African-born Bishop of Moshi.
May 8, 1960
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Bagamoyo
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.
June 15, 1954
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East Africa
Fr Alfonse Mtana, a diocesan priest of the Apostolic Vicariat of Kilimanjaro, becomes the first African priest to be ordained in the Holy Ghost Vicariates of East Africa.
April 1, 1939
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USA
The Holy See names an American citizen, Fr. Joseph Byrne, as Vicar Apostolic of Kilimanjaro in East Africa, a Vicariat it entrusts to the U.S. Province.
July 29, 1932
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Bagamoyo
The Apostolic Vicariate of Bagamoyo (Tanganyika) is confided to the Dutch Province.
January 4, 1932
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East Africa
Bishop Emile-Auguste Allgeyer moves the seat of his diocese from Zanzibar to Nairobi. He retires on 24.04.1913 and is replaced by Bishop Gerald Neville of the Irish Province.
April 10, 1913
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East Africa
The Apostolic Vicariat of Kilimanjaro is set up and P. Alois Munsch is named bishop.
September 6, 1910
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Bagamoyo
Mgr. Xavier Vogt becomes Vicar Apostolic of the New Vicariat of Central Zanzibar. He establishes his residence in Bagamoyo. The new Vicariat has 30 priests, 20 brothers and 13.600 Christians.…
January 15, 1907
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East Africa
The Holy See creates the Vicariat of Bagamoyo (Central Zanzibar) out of the Vicariat of Northern Zanguebar. Fr François-Xavier VOGT is appointed Bishop for the new Vicariat of Kilimanjaro.
May 11, 1906
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East Africa
A contract is drawn up between Bishop Allgeyer and the Sultan of Zanzibar regarding the care of lepers in the area: the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny look after…
October 24, 1902
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East Africa
The Vicariat of Central Zanzibar becomes the Vicariat of Bagamoyo.
December 21, 1901
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East Africa
Bishop Allegeyer starts a mission at Simonsdale in Kikuyu country (Vicariate Apostolic of North Zanguebar).
March 23, 1899
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East Africa
First mass in Nairobi at the new Railway Station. Beginning of Holy Family Parish. Foundation of St. Austin's Mission and the first planting of commercially successful coffee in Kenya (Vicariat…
March 11, 1899
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East Africa
Fr. Gommendinger starts the Kilimanjaro mission. Père Le Roy begins work in Mombasa where a group of Christians had been killed in 1630.
March 9, 1891
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East Africa
Holy Ghost missionaries open a mission at Kilema, the first at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
February 9, 1891
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East Africa
The Holy See divides the Prefecture of Zanguebar: Southern Zanguebar is entrusted to the Benedictines, the Spiritans retain the northern section.
November 16, 1887
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East Africa
The Prefecture Apostolic becomes a Vicariat and Raoul de Courmont is named the first bishop on November 23, 1883. The pastoral aim is to create a Christian village community of…
February 22, 1883
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East Africa
The first caravan of White Fathers to the interior is organised by Fr. Baur and Br. Oskar (Spiritans) On 11.06.1878, it sets out from Bagamoyo with 300 porters to the…
June 12, 1878
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East Africa
Spiritan pioneers, Antoine Horner, Edouard Baur, and Oscar Schwedding, plant a cross at Mhonda in the Nguru Mountains and hence establish a Christian village in inland Tanzania for the first…
November 5, 1877
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East Africa
After the Mission had recovered from the destruction of the cyclone the original idea of penetrating into the interior was taken up again and a Mission was founded at Mhonda…
January 30, 1877
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East Africa
The junior seminary with 24 students is moved from Zanzibar to Bagamoyo. Brother Oscar from Dusseldorf runs a sort of procure for the mission, collaborating with the White Fathers and…
January 28, 1874
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East Africa
A British Minister, Sir Bartle Frere on his mission to abolish the slave trade, visits Bagamoyo mission and commends the Holy Ghost missionaries in their work of liberating and rehabilitating…
March 17, 1873
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East Africa
A cyclone does much damage to the whole of Bagamoyo Mission compound: roofs are blown off, walls collapse, trees are uprooted - but fortunately no lives are lost.
April 15, 1872
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East Africa
Bishop Maupoint (of Saint-Denis, Reunion) gives up his jurisdiction over East Africa, thereby allowing the Apostolic Prefecture of Zanzibar to be confided to the Spiritans.
June 10, 1871
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East Africa
A famous British journalist and explorer, Henry M. Stanley visits Bagamoyo mission and commends the Holy Ghost missionaries for the work they are doing in instilling in their converts \"principles…
February 5, 1871
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East Africa
Spiritans open a noviciate for local sisters at Bagamoyo, to be run by the Daughters of Mary from Reunion.
November 4, 1870
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East Africa
A serious epidemic of cholera claims the lives of more than 1,000 people at Bagamoyo mission. Sister M. Julienne of the Filles de Marie, a collaborator with the Spiritan Pioneers,…
April 17, 1870
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