Maryknoll

The Maryknoll missionary order ( Latin: Societas de Maryknoll per missionibus exteris, Engl: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Religious symbol: MM ) is a society of apostolic life in the Roman Catholic Church. She was named after her mother's house Maryknoll and founded in 1911. In 1918 sent the missionary society, consisting of priests, lay brothers and sisters, their first missionaries to the Republic of China.

History

The two Fathers Thomas Frederick Price, and James Anthony Walsh founded the missionary orders in Hawthorne, New York, which was confirmed on 29 June 1911 by Pope Pius X.. Already in the following year was created under Mary Josephine Rogers ( Mollie ) from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a female religious branch, but this was only in 1920 recognized as a separate order. The name of the Maryknoll Order comes from the seminary, founded in 1920 to train young priests near Ossining, New York, which was called knoll in devotion of Mary Mary's.

Organization

Organizationally, the missionary order is divided into three legally independent branches:

  • The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers cover than the male branch of the missionary community of around 550 members in all parts of the world, especially in Africa, South America and Asia.
  • The Maryknoll Sisters were founded in 1912. They are also active in the mission and today (2003) 604 members from 22 countries and are represented in the following countries: American Samoa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, United States of America, Yap and Zimbabwe.
  • Maryknoll Lay missionaries Listeners are approximately 100 men and women (as of 2010 ), which provide development assistance in the poorest regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas through their work in the sense of Christian charity.

The Maryknoll Institute of African Studies ( MIAS ) is an ecumenical and open to students of all faiths educational institution to obtain knowledge (East ) African culture. The MIAS is academically the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, USA and the Tangaza College in Nairobi, Kenya connected.

General Superiore

  • James Anthony Walsh (1911 - 1936)
  • James Edward Walsh (1936 - 1946)
  • Raymond Aloysius Lane (7 August 1946 - August 6, 1956 )
  • John William Comber (August 6, 1956 - August 7, 1966 )
  • John C. Sivalon (2001 - 2008)
  • Edward M. Dougherty (2008 - ...)

Conflicts with the bishop in Puno, Peru

The current Roman Catholic Bishop of July, José María Ortega Trinidad, does not want that the following Maryknoll Fathers continue to remain in the Prelature: Jaime Madden, Miguel Briggs, Roberto Hoffmann and Edmundo Cookson.

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