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unusual facts about Catholic mission



Albert Sylla

As a child he was educated in nous Catholic missions, attending the Brothers of Saint Gabriel in Nosy Be, and later the College of the Saint Joseph Christian Brothers in Tamatave.


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Crow Wing State Park

Three churches were established in town, including a Catholic mission by Father Francis Xavier Pierz.

Félix Couchoro

Born in Ouidah, Dahomey, he studied in a Catholic mission and was a teacher in a Catholic school.

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Fort Smith Mission Park is a popular tourist attraction featuring historic buildings and a grotto from the Oblate Catholic Mission.

Francis Xavier Kurrupuwu

He was named Francis Xavier (after Bishop Francis Xavier Gsell, who had established a Catholic mission on the island in 1911) by Sister Anne Gardiner.

Linzolo

The town of Linzolo, located 20 km south of Brazzaville and the Livingstone Falls on the Cataractes plateau on the west side of the river, was the chosen site between 1881 and 1883 for the founding of the oldest Catholic Mission in the Congo with that of Loango.

Marino Sanuto the Elder

Among his friends and correspondents were Guglielmo Bernardi de Furvo, a Venetian nobleman who had travelled extensively in Muslem and Mongol lands (to Tabriz, Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo), Bishop Jerome of Kaffa, in the Crimea, who in 1312 had been sent to reinforce the Catholic mission in China, and perhaps Peter, the English-born bishop of Sevastopolis or Sukhum Kale in western Caucasia, who makes an appeal for aid to the prelates of England in 1330.

Padroado

An example was the island-state of Singapore, where the Portuguese mission, under the Padroado, operated Saint Joseph's Church independently of the Roman Catholic Mission and later the Archdiocese of Singapore.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington

The first Roman Catholic mission in Delaware was established in 1804 by Rev. Patrick Kenney on the site of the Coffee Run Cemetery in Mill Creek, Delaware.

Roman Catholicism in Mongolia

John of Montecorvino was a key missionary to Mongol-controlled China during the Yuan Dynasty, translating the New Testament and the Psalms into the Mongol tongue, founding the first Roman Catholic mission in Beijing and becoming its first bishop.

Sergei Stasevych

With the support of the Rector of the Belarusian Catholic Mission in London, Alexander Nadson Stasevych was adopted in Greek counterpart in Rome and also studied at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, in which in 2004 he received a Bachelor degree of Theology.

Sisters of War

Polish-born, Bishop Leo Scharmach was the charismatic leader of the Catholic Mission at Vunapope, the head-quarters of the Sacred Heart Mission which covered New Britain, New Ireland and Manus.

Vsevolod Leonidovich Roshko

The next posting was Russian Catholic Mission in Dillingham, Alaska, USA, where Roshko take a serious study of life and work of Russian missionary Herman of Alaska.

Yousif Habash

In 1994, he was assigned to the Syriac Catholic Mission of North America, serving first in Newark, New Jersey and, from 2001 on, at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in West Hollywood, California.