Our History – Missionaries of Africa

Ignatius Anipu, M.Afr., bishop-elect of Maradi, the first African Missionary of Africa to be appointed bishop of a diocese outside his country of origin

Data: 05/03/2025

Ignatius Anipu est le cent-sixième Missionnaire d’Afrique nommé évêque. Il est le troisième Ghanéen, après Richard Baawobr et Francis Bomansaan. Il est le treizième Africain Missionnaire d’Afrique nommé évêque. Il est le premier Africain Missionnaire d’Afrique nommé évêque d’un diocèse situé en dehors de son pays d’origine. Tous les douze autres Africains Missionnaires d’Afrique ont été nommés évêques dans leurs pays d’origine.

Diego Sarrió, M.Afr., bishop-elect of Laghouat, in the footsteps of his predecessors

Data: 31/01/2025

Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella is the 105th Missionary of Africa appointed bishop (this number excludes the Founder). The first one was Léon Livinhac. He was appointed Apostolic Vicar of Victoria-Nyanza, Uganda and Titular Bishop of Pacandus on 15 June 1883 at the age of 36.

About Lavigerie’s grandmother

Data: 21/01/2025

ROSE AGNÈS FOURTICOT (1779-1847) Rose Agnès, Cardinal Lavigerie’s grandmother, was born in Pau on January 21, 1779, in her parents’ home on “rue Nationale” (today rue de maréchal Joffre). She […]

Missionaries of Africa founded the village of Karema with five hundred redeemed slaves

Data: 11/06/2024

Karema had been a Belgian military station founded by Captain Emile Storms. In 1884 Captain Storms subsequently handed it over to the Missionaries of Africa who had arrived to evangelize the Vicariate of Tanganyika, when he returned to Europe. The Missionaries of Africa founded the village of Karema with five hundred redeemed slaves. The former Papal Zouave, Leopold Joubert, reached there in 1886 to offer protection. Dr. Adrian Atiman arrived in 1889 and remained the medical doctor and catechist until his death in 1956. His small house can still be seen close to the Church of Karema.

Lavigerie Day

Data: 01/11/2022

JOIN THE MEETING ZOOM HERE It is 130 years since Cardinal Lavigerie died, leaving behind two young Missionary Institutes (the White Fathers and the White Sisters) that he founded in […]