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Maryknoll is a Catholic non-profit mission movement consisting of four organizations. Together, they work as missioners around the world as Lay People, Priests, Brothers and Sisters. Together, they work as missioners around the world as Lay People, Priests, Brothers and Sisters.
The Maryknoll name is shared by a number of related Catholic organizations, including the Maryknoll Sisters, and the Maryknoll Lay Missioners. The organizations are independent entities with shared history that work closely together in the joint focus of the overseas mission activity of the Catholic Church particularly in East Asia, the United ...
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and the Maryknoll Sisters were founded in 1911 [1] and 1912, [2] respectively. After the Second Vatican Council closed in 1965, both organizations started work on starting a lay institute (following the council's encouragement of more lay involvement and ministry in the church; see Lumen Gentium). [3]
The Maryknoll Sisters, (formerly the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic/Teresians) [1] are an institute of Catholic religious sisters founded in the village of Ossining, Westchester County, New York, in 1912, six months after the 1911 creation of the Maryknoll community of missionary brothers and fathers.
Father Thomas F. Price, co-founder of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, center, was pictured in a 1918 photo in China. Price made a countrywide tour of America to gain support for the new endeavor. By 1918, three young priests (James Edward Walsh, Francis Xavier Ford, and Bernard F. Meyer) were ready for the foreign missions in China. On ...
Medical Missionaries of Mary; Mission Society of the Philippines; Missionaries of Charity; Missionaries of Christ Jesus; Missionaries of St. John the Baptist; Missionaries of the Poor; Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; Missionary Fathers of Our Lady of Deliverance; Missionary Sisters of Our ...
Maryknoll (abbreviation M.M.) or, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, is a Roman Catholic group of men and women dedicated to missionary service based in the United States. The men are formed as a Society of Apostolic Life of American citizens, while the women are an international religious institute .
Patrick James Byrne, M.M. (October 26, 1888 – November 25, 1950) was an American-born Catholic missionary and Bishop.As a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll), he was assigned for missions in Korea and Japan.