Missionaries of the Precious Blood

The Missionaries of the Precious Blood (Latin: Congregation Missionariorum Pretiosissimi Sanguinis Domini Nostri Jesus Christ, Religious symbol: CPPS ) is a society of apostolic life with the seat of the General Government in Rome. It was founded in 1815 by Gaspare del Bufalo in the Abbey of San Felice in Giano dell ' Umbria, Italy. The community has about 673 members in 2011 in seven provinces: Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein, Iberia, Italy, Poland, Canada and two in the United States. Curacies there are in Brazil, Chile, India and Tanzania. Moderator General is Francesco Bartoloni, who succeeded in 2007 Barry Fischer.

Order members

  • Clemens Geiger (1900-1995), Bishop in Altamira ( Brazil) 1948-1971
  • Erich Kräutler (1906-1985), Bishop in Altamira ( Brazil) 1971-1981
  • Erwin Kräutler ( b. 1939 ), Bishop in Altamira ( Brazil) since 1981, President of the Indian Missionary Council of Brazilian Bishops' Conference CIMI 1983-1991. In 2006 he was again president of CIMI, after the incumbent president Bishop Gianfranco Masserdotti MCCJ was killed in an accident.
  • Andreas Hasenburger (* 1960), Provincial of the German Province of the Order since 2007, Rector of the Sanctuary, the monastery and the retreat center Maria Hilf in Kufstein - kindling, before Kaplan in Klagenfurt- Annabichl, pastors in Neuenheerse or in Schellenberg ( Liechtenstein ); then Rector of the College of St. Joseph in Salzburg- Aigen and Spiritual Director of the priest seminary of the Archdiocese of Salzburg; Involvement in the Loretto community, employees at Radio Maria Austria.

German -speaking province

The German -speaking province has offices in the following locations:

  • School St. Kaspar and Youth St. Kaspar pin Heerse in Neuenheerse
  • Maria Baumgärtle in Breitenbrunn
  • Parish of the Holy Cross in Traunstein; Seat of the provincial for Germany
  • In Schellenberg
  • College of St. Joseph in Salzburg -Aigen; Seat of the province for Austria
  • Salzburg - Parsch parish
  • Sanctuary kindling, monastery and retreat house " Maria Hilf" in Kufstein - kindling
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