Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St.Charles Borromeo

The Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo ( Latin: Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Missionariorum a Sancto Carolo Borromeo, religious symbol FSCB, often colloquially Karl Brotherhood ) is a Fraternity in the Roman Catholic Church and Society of Apostolic Life.

History

The Fraternity was founded in 1985 from the Communion and Liberation ( Communion and Liberation ), a company founded by the Milanese priest Luigi Giussani 1954 Roman Catholic movement.

Founder and first Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity is Massimo Camisasca, who along with six priests, a seminary in Via Liberiana 21 founded in Rome on 14 September 1985. In 1989 a first ecclesiastical recognition by Cardinal Ugo Poletti as an institute of diocesan right after. The recognition of the Roman Curia as a society of apostolic life of pontifical right and as an institute of took place on 19 March 1999 by Pope John Paul II.

Main patron of the Society of Saint Joseph of Nazareth. The namesake of the Brotherhood of Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584), Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, and a major representative of the Counter-Reformation.

Organization

The Fraternity is in 20 countries on five continents, especially missionary, active. Living in housing communities priests are mainly engaged in parishes, schools and universities.

Headquarters of the Brotherhood 's Rome. In Germany there is a branch in the Archdiocese of Cologne. It operates there pastoral community and school counseling.

Paolo Pezzi FSCB since 2007, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow and since 2011 as chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Russia head of the Catholics in Russia.