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The New England Province administered a mission in Iraq, Jamaica, and Jordan. In 1943, the Maryland-New York Province was once again split into the Maryland Province and the New York Province, whose territory included all of New York State and northern New Jersey. From the New York Province, the Buffalo Province was created in 1960, whose ...
The Western Province of the USA has a mission in Kenya, where in conjunction with parish ministry water projects have been initiated to provide clean water to the people. [22] The New England Province was founded in 1904 by Vincentians from Poland. They staff parishes in New York and Connecticut.
The General Congregation is a meeting of all of the assistants, provincials, and additional representatives who are elected by the professed Jesuits of each province. It meets irregularly and rarely, normally to elect a new superior general and/or to take up some major policy issues for the order.
The Jesuits have built many new colleges and churches over the centuries, for which the start date indicated is generally the start of the project (e.g. invitation or grant from a local ruler) rather than the opening of the institution which often happened several years later.
Loyola Jesuit Seminary - Operated from 1955 to 1973; run by the Society of Jesus. Mater Christi Seminary - Closed in 1969; operated by the Diocese of Albany; Mount Alvernia Seminary - Operated from 1950 to 1967; run by the Italian-American Province of the Immaculate Conception of the Order of Friars Minor.
Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, [177] Founded the Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete. Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan. [178] Fr. José Manuel Gallegos, [179] [180] Democratic Party politician and part of the History of New Mexico. Fr. James Gower, [181] [182] Peace activist and co-founder of the College of the Atlantic.
Map of New France (Champlain, 1612). Jesuit missions in North America were attempted in the late 16th century, established early in the 17th century, faltered at the beginning of the 18th, disappeared during the suppression of the Society of Jesus around 1763, and returned around 1830 after the restoration of the Society.
The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism (Brill, 2016). McClain, Lisa. "On a Mission: Priests, Jesuits," Jesuitresses," and Catholic Missionary Efforts in Tudor-Stuart England." Catholic Historical Review 101.3 (2015): 437-462. Nolan, Francis.