Also known as: Congregation of Discalced Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (English) / Kongregation vom Leiden Jesu Christi (Passionisten) (Deutsch) / Congregación de la Pasión (Pasionistas) (español) / Congrégation de la Passion de Jésus-Christ (Passionistes) (français) / Congregazione della Passione di Gesù Cristo (Passionisti) (Italiano) / Zgromadzenie Męki Pańskiej (Pasjoniści) (polski) / Congregação da Paixão de Jesus Cristo (Passionistas) (Português) / 耶穌苦難會 (正體中文) / Congregatio Passionis Iesu Christi (latine)
Type: Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right (for Men)
Depends on: Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life
Patron Saint: Our Lady of the Sorrows
Statistics: 365 houses, 1,963 members (1,514 priests) (2017)
Address: Piazza SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 13, 00184 Roma, Italy
Phone: 06.77.27.11
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Superior General: |  Fr. Joachim Xavier Rego, C.P. (65) (2012.09.27 – ...) |
Superior General: | Fr. Ottaviano D’Egidio, C.P. (2000 – 2012.09.27) |
Superior General: | Fr. José Augustín Orbegozo Jáuregui, C.P. (1988 – 2000) |
Superior General: | Fr. Paul Michael Boyle, C.P. (later Bishop) (1976 – 1988) |
Superior General: | Fr. Theodore Foley, C.P. (1964.05.07 – 1974.10.09) |
Superior General: | Fr. Malcolm La Velle, C.P. (1952 – 1964) |
Superior General: | Fr. Alberto Deane, C.P. (later Bishop) (1946 – 1952) |
Superior General: | Fr. Tito Cerroni, C.P. (1937 – 1946) |
Superior General: | Fr. Tito Finocchi, C.P. (1931 – 1937) |
Superior General: | Fr. Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. (later Archbishop) (1926 – 1931.03.23) |
Superior General: | Fr. Silvio Di Vezza, C.P. (1914 – 1926) |
Superior General: | Fr. Geremia Angelucci, C.P. (1908 – 1914) |
Superior General: | Blessed Fr. Bernardo Maria di Gesù Silvestrelli, C.P. (1893 – 1907) |
Superior General: | Fr. Francesco Saverio Del Principe, C.P. (1890 – 1892) |
Vicar General: | Fr. Francesco Saverio Del Principe, C.P. (1889 – 1890) |
Superior General: | Blessed Fr. Bernardo Maria di Gesù Silvestrelli, C.P. (1878 – 1889) |
Superior General: | Fr. Bernardo Prelini, C.P. (1875 – 1878) |
Superior General: | Fr. Domenico Giacchini, C.P. (1869 – 1875) |
Superior General: | Fr. Pietro Paolo Cayro, C.P. (1863 – 1869) |
Superior General: | Fr. Antonio Testa, C.P. (1839 – 1862) |
Superior General: | Fr. Antonio Colombo, C.P. (1827 – 1839) |
Superior General: | Fr. Paolo Luigi Pighi, C.P. (1820 – 1827) |
Superior General: | Fr. Tommaso Albesano, C.P. (1809 – 1820) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giuseppe Maria Claris, C.P. (1796 – 1809) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giovanni Battista Gorresio, C.P. (1790 – 1796) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giovanni Maria Cioni, C.P. (1784 – 1790) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giovanni Battista Gorresio, C.P. (1778 – 1784) |
Vicar General: | Fr. Giovanni Battista Gorresio, C.P. (1775 – 1778) |
Superior General: | Saint Fr. Paolo Francesco Danei (Paul of the Cross), C.P. (1741 – 1775.10.18) |
Founder: | Saint Fr. Paolo Francesco Danei (Paul of the Cross), C.P. (1720) |
 Archbishop Washington Cruz, C.P. (73), Metropolitan Archbishop of Goiânia (Brazil)
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 Bishop Tommaso Cascianelli, C.P. (71), Bishop of Irecê (Brazil)
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 Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (56), Titular Bishop of Tusuros and Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil)
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 Bishop Afonso Fioreze, C.P. (77), Bishop emeritus of Luziânia (Brazil)
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 Bishop William Kenney, C.P. (73), Titular Bishop of Midica and Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham (England)
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 Bishop Emery Kibal Mansong’loo, C.P. (50), Bishop of Kole (Congo-Kinshasa)
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 Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa, C.P. (63), Bishop of Pemba (Mozambique) and Secretary General of Episcopal Conference of Mozambique
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 Bishop Jesús Agustín López de Lama, C.P. (89), Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Corocoro (Bolivia)
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 Bishop Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P. (87), Bishop emeritus of Arecibo (Puerto Rico)
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 Bishop Giulio Mencuccini, C.P. (73), Bishop of Sanggau (Indonesia)
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 Bishop Neil Edward Tiedemann, C.P. (71), Titular Bishop of Cova and Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)
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2018: Bishop Miguel Irízar Campos, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Callao (Peru) |
2017: Bishop José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, C.P., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Yurimaguas (Peru) |
2013: Bishop Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Orlando (USA) |
2009: Archbishop Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, C.P., Archbishop emeritus of Camerino–San Severino Marche (Italy) and Secretary emeritus of Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life |
2008: Bishop Venancio Celestino Orbe Uriarte, C.P., Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Moyobamba (Peru) |
2008: Bishop Paul Michael Boyle, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Mandeville (Jamaica) |
2007: Bishop José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P., Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Moyobamba (Peru) |
2006: Bishop José Mauro Pereira Bastos, C.P., Bishop of Guaxupé (Brazil) |
2002: Bishop John Etheridge, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Vanimo (Papua New Guinea) |
1998: Bishop Estanislau Arnoldo van Melis, C.P., Bishop emeritus of São Luís de Montes Belos (Brazil) |
1996: Bishop Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P., Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Marbel (Philippines) |
1991: Bishop Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P., Bishop of Ponta Grossa (Brazil) |
1987: Bishop Eduardo Pedro Martínez y Dalmau, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Cienfuegos (Cuba) |
1985: Bishop Alberto Deane, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Villa María (Argentina) |
1981: Bishop Stanislao Amilcare Battistelli, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Teramo (Italy) and Bishop emeritus of Atri (Italy) |
1981: Bishop Gabriel W. Sillekens, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Ketapang (Indonesia) |
1981: Bishop Urban Charles Joseph Murphy, C.P., Bishop of Gaborone (Botswana) |
1981: Bishop Paschal Sweeney, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Vanimo (Papua New Guinea) |
1976: Bishop Joseph Augustin Hagendorens, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Tshumbe (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1976: Bishop Gregorio Elias Olazar Muruaga, C.P., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Yurimaguas (Peru) |
1972: Bishop Quintino Carlo Bertamo Olwell, C.P., Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Marbel (Philippines) |
1971: Bishop Anthony Jeremiah Pesce, C.P., Bishop of Dodoma (Tanzania) |
1968: Bishop Cutbert Martin O’Gara (歐克瀾), C.P., Bishop of Yuanling 沅陵 (China) |
1966: Bishop Martin Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, C.P., Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru) |
1965: Bishop Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández, C.P., Bishop-Prelate of Corocoro (Bolivia) |
1963: Archbishop Giovanni Battista Peruzzo, C.P., Bishop of Agrigento (Italy) and Archbishop ad personam |
1960: Bishop Eugenio Raffaele Faggiano, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Cariati (Italy) |
1959: Bishop Carlos Francisco Hanlon, C.P., Bishop of Catamarca (Argentina) |
1957: Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P., Apostolic Internuncio emeritus to India |
1957: Bishop Atanasio Celestino Jáuregui y Goiri, C.P., Vicar Apostolic of San Gabriel de la Dolorosa del Marañón (Peru) |
1952: Blessed Bishop Vincentius Eugenio Bossilkoff, C.P., Bishop of Nikopol (Bulgaria) |
1946: Bishop Damian Johannes Theelen, C.P., Bishop of Nikopol (Bulgaria) |
1935: Bishop Paul Joseph Nussbaum, C.P., Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie–Marquette |
1918: Archbishop Pietro Paolo Camillo Moreschini, C.P., Archbishop of Camerino (Italy) and Bishop of Treia (Italy) |
1916: Archbishop Henri Doulcet, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Nikopol (Bulgaria) |
1916: Bishop Michele Cardella, C.P., Bishop of Sovana–Pitigliano (Italy) |
1915: Bishop Leonardo Baumbach, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Nikopol (Bulgaria) |
1897: Bishop Costantino Costa, C.P., Bishop of Segni (Italy) |
1893: Bishop Ippolito Agosto, C.P., Bishop of Nikopol (Bulgaria) |
1892: Archbishop Paolo Giuseppe Palma, C.P., Archbishop of Bucureşti (Romania) |
1885: Archbishop Ignazio Paoli, C.P., Archbishop of Bucureşti (Romania) |
1874: Archbishop Antonio Giuseppe Pluym, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Nikopol (Bulgaria) and Apostolic Administrator emeritus of Valachie (Romania) |
1847: Bishop Fortunato Maria Ercolani, C.P., Bishop of Civita Castellana (Italy), Bishop of Orte and Bishop of Gallese |
1824: Saint Bishop Vincenzo Maria Strambi, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Tolentino (Italy) and Bishop emeritus of Macerata (Italy) |
1814: Bishop Francesco Maria Ferreri, C.P., Bishop of Nikopol (Bulgaria) and Apostolic Administrator of Valachie (Romania) |
1780: Bishop Tommaso Struzzieri, C.P., Bishop of Todi (Italy) |
>2016: Fr. Ciro Benedettini, C.P., Deputy Director emeritus of Press Office of the Holy See |
>2013: Fr. Fernando Domingos Costa, C.P., Apostolic Administrator emeritus of Pemba (Mozambique) |
>1991: Fr. David Wilkie, C.P., Apostolic Administrator emeritus of Vanimo (Papua New Guinea) |
1982: Fr. Domenico Luca Spinosi, C.P., Prefect Apostolic of Sekadau (Indonesia) |
1972: Fr. Michele Di Simone, C.P., Prefect Apostolic of Sekadau (Indonesia) |
1941: Fr. Stanislao dell’Addolorata, C.P., Prefect Apostolic of Dodoma (Tanzania) |
1939: Fr. Dominic Langenbacher (藍堅牧), C.P., Prefect Apostolic emeritus of Chenzhou 辰州 (China) |
1874: Msgr. Joseph Pluym, C.P., Apostolic Administrator of Constantinopole (Turkey) |