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The Society of the Divine Word (Latin: Societas Verbi Divini), abbreviated SVD and popularly called the Verbites or the Divine Word Missionaries, and sometimes the Steyler Missionaries, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men.
Leonard James Olivier, SVD ... November 19, 2014) was an African-American Catholic bishop. He was born in Lake ... In 1951 he was ordained a priest for the ...
It extended from roughly present-day Plains, Montana, westward along the Clark Fork River, to Lake Pend Oreille [3] and Priest Lake in Idaho, and the Pend Oreille River (Ntxwe, meaning "river") in eastern Washington and into British Columbia . They lived in many bands — originally, probably eleven — in their historic lands.
Priest Lake is a lake in Idaho, United States, in the northernmost portion of the Idaho Panhandle, 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Spokane, Washington. The northern end of the lake extends to within 15 miles (24 km) of the Canada–United States border. The primary lake, lower Priest, is 19 miles (31 km) long and over 300 feet (91 m) deep. [1]
Divine Word College of Bangued – Bangued, Abra; Divine Word College of Laoag – Gen. Segundo Ave., Laoag City; Divine Word College of Urdaneta – Urdaneta, Pangasinan; Divine Word College of Vigan – Vigan, Ilocos Sur
In 1931, the Society purchased property in Epworth, Iowa, where it established St. Paul's Mission House, an SVD high school seminary. In 1964, Divine Word College replaced the high school seminary and has since served as the principal site of SVD undergraduate seminary education in the United States. [6] [7]
Stephen Bennett Bevans, SVD (born July 14, 1944) is an American Catholic priest, theologian, and professor emeritus at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illinois. He is known for his book Models of Contextual Theology. [2]
Joseph Freinademetz SVD (simplified Chinese: 圣福若瑟; traditional Chinese: 聖福若瑟; pinyin: Shèng Fú Ruòsè; April 15, 1852 – January 28, 1908), was a Ladin Catholic priest and missionary in China. [3]