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White Fathers
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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A society of secular priests and coadjutor brothers living in community. The first archbishop of Algeria, later Cardinal Lavigerie, founded it in 1868 for the immediate care and instruction of Arab children orphaned by the famine of 1867 and the general purpose of converting all Africa; constitutions approved, 1908, and again, 1921. Not, strictly speaking, a religious order, its members lead the community life and are governed by a superior-general residing at Maison-Carree, near Algiers. The society maintains missions in the Sahara, the Sudan, Vicariates Apostolic of Northern and Southern Nyanza, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyassa, and Upper Congo, a Greek Melchite seminary at Jerusalem, and a scholasticate at Carthage. The society's name was changed to the Missionaries of Africa (M. Afr.) in 1984. Contacts:
United States Conference
Missionaries of Africa
1624 21Street NW
Washington, DCD 20009
tx: 202.232.5154United Kingdom Conference
42Stormont Road
London N6 4NP
United Kingdom
tx: 44 (0181) 348-7799 Canadian Conference
Local Superior - Toronto
56 Indian Road Crescent
Toronto ON M6P 1Strong's #2
Canada
tx: 416.530.1887
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Entry for 'White Fathers'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/w/white-fathers.html. 1910.
