Also known as: Missionare von Afrika (Weiße Väter) (Deutsch) / Missionnaires d’Afrique (Pères blancs) (français) / Missionari d’Africa (Padri Bianchi) (Italiano) / Missionarii Africæ (Patres Albi) (latine)
Type: Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right (for Men)
Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation
Statistics: 185 houses, 1,348 members (1,003 priests) (2021)
Address: C.P. 9078, 00100 Roma-Aurelio; Via Aurelia, 269, 00165 Roma, Italy
Phone: 06.393.63.41
Website:
| Superior General: |   Fr. Stanley Lubungo, M. Afr. (55) (2016.05.27 – ...) |
| Superior General: |  Fr. Richard Kuuia Baawobr, M. Afr. (later Cardinal) (2010.05.31 – 2016.02.17) |
| Superior General: |   Fr. Gérard Chabanon, M. Afr. (75) (2004.06.02 – 2010.05.31) |
| Superior General: | Fr. François Richard, M. Afr. (1998 – 2004.06.02) |
| Superior General: | Fr. Gothard Rosner, M. Afr. (1992 – 1998) |
| Superior General: | Fr. Étienne Renaud, M. Afr. (1986 – 1992) |
| Superior General: |  Fr. Robert Marie Gay, M. Afr. (later Bishop) (1980 – 1986) |
| Superior General: | Fr. Jean-Marie Vasseur, M. Afr. (1974 – 1980) |
| Superior General: | Fr. Théoz Van Asten, M. Afr. (1967 – 1974) |
| Superior General: | Fr. Léon Volker, M. Afr. (1957 – 1967) |
| Superior General: |  Bishop Louis-Marie-Joseph Durrieu, M. Afr. (1947.05.05 – 1957) |
| Superior General: |  Bishop Joseph-Marie Birraux, M. Afr. (1936.04.22 – 1947.04.30) |
| Superior General: | Fr. Paul Voillard, M. Afr. (1922 – 1936) |
| Superior General: | Archbishop Léon-Antoine-Augustin-Siméon Livinhac, M. Afr. (1894 – 1922.11.11) |
| Vicar General: | Bishop Léon-Antoine-Augustin-Siméon Livinhac, M. Afr. (later Archbishop) (1889 – 1894) |
| Vicar General: | Fr. Francisque Deguerry, M. Afr. (1886 – 1889) |
| Vicar General: | Fr. Léonce Bridoux, M. Afr. (later Bishop) (1885? – 1886) |
| Vicar General: | Fr. Jean-Baptiste-Frézal Charbonnier, M. Afr. (later Bishop) (1880 – 1885) |
| Vicar General: | Fr. Francisque Deguerry, M. Afr. (1874 – 1880) |
| Founder: |  Archbishop Charles-Martial Allemand-Lavigerie (later Cardinal) (1868) |
2022: Cardinal Richard Kuuia Baawobr, M. Afr., Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea and Bishop of Wa (Ghana) |
2022:  Archbishop Rémi Joseph Gustave Sainte-Marie, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Lilongwe (Malawi) |
2016: Bishop Robert Marie Gay, M. Afr., Bishop of Kabale (Uganda) |
2012: Bishop Patrick Augustine Kalilombe, M. Afr., Bishop of Lilongwe (Malawi) |
2008: Bishop Denis Martin Tapsoba, M. Afr., Bishop of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso) |
2007: Bishop Pierre François Marie Joseph Duprey, M. Afr., Secretary of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Vice-President of Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews |
2005:  Bishop Joseph Paul Barnabé Perrot, M. Afr., Bishop of San (Mali) |
2004:  Archbishop André Makarakiza, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Gitega (Burundi) |
2004: Bishop Michel-Joseph-Gérard Gagnon, M. Afr., Bishop of Laghouat (Algeria) |
2003:  Archbishop André Perraudin, M. Afr., Archbishop-Bishop of Kabgayi (Rwanda) |
2003: Bishop Georges Biard, M. Afr., Bishop of Mopti (Mali) |
2003:  Bishop Louis-de-Gonzague Langevin, M. Afr., Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (Canada) |
2000: Cardinal Paul Zoungrana, M. Afr., Cardinal-Priest of S. Camillo de Lellis and Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) |
2000: Bishop Jean-Marie-Gaëtan Ogez, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbarara (Uganda) |
1999: Bishop André-Joseph-Prosper Dupont, M. Afr., Bishop of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) |
1999: Bishop Firmin Courtemanche, M. Afr., Bishop of Chipata (Zambia) |
1997: Bishop Jean-Louis Jobidon, M. Afr., Bishop of Mzuzu (Malawi) |
1995: Bishop James Holmes-Siedle, M. Afr., Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania) |
1992: Bishop Joseph Blomjous, M. Afr., Bishop of Mwanza (Tanzania) |
1991: Bishop Georges-Louis Mercier, M. Afr., Bishop of Laghouat (Algeria) |
1990:  Archbishop Michel Callens, M. Afr., Bishop-Prelate of Tunis (Tunisia) |
1990: Bishop Jean-Marie Lesourd, M. Afr., Bishop of Nouna (Burkina Faso) |
1989: Bishop Jean-Marie Michel Arthur Alix Zacharie Raimbaud, M. Afr., Bishop of Laghouat (Algeria) |
1988: Bishop Marcel Daubechies, M. Afr., Bishop of Kasama (Zambia) |
1988: Bishop Adolf Fürstenberg, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbala (Zambia) |
1988:  Bishop Eugène Maillat, M. Afr., Bishop of N’Zérékoré (Guinea) |
1988: Bishop René-Georges Pailloux, M. Afr., Bishop of Mansa (Zambia) |
1988:  Bishop Owen McCoy, M. Afr., Bishop of Oyo (Nigeria) |
1987: Archbishop Emile-Joseph Socquet, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) |
1986: Archbishop Antoine Grauls, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Gitega (Burundi) |
1985:  Bishop Urbain Etienne Morlion, M. Afr., Bishop of Baudouinville (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1985: Bishop Joseph-Marie-Eugène Bretault, M. Afr., Bishop of Koudougou (Burkina Faso) |
1984: Bishop Alexandre-Auguste-Laurent-Marie Roy, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bangweulu (Zambia) |
1984: Bishop Joseph Fady, M. Afr., Bishop of Lilongwe (Malawi) |
1983: Archbishop Pierre Louis Leclerc, M. Afr., Archbishop-Bishop of Ségou (Mali) |
1983: Archbishop Louis van Steene, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1982: Bishop Joseph Martin, M. Afr., Bishop of Bururi (Burundi) |
1981: Archbishop Louis Joseph Cabana, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Rubaga (Uganda) |
1980: Archbishop Cornelius Bronsveld, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora (Tanzania) |
1980: Bishop Didier Pérouse de Montclos, M. Afr., Bishop of Sikasso (Mali) |
1978: Bishop Étienne-Marie-Félix Courtois, M. Afr., Bishop of Kayes (Mali) |
1976: Bishop Gerard Bertrand, M. Afr., Bishop of Navrongo (Ghana) |
1976: Bishop Gabriel Champagne, M. Afr., Bishop of Tamale (Ghana) |
1974:  Bishop Francis Raymond Walsh, M. Afr., Bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland) |
1971: Bishop Xavier Geeraerts, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1970: Bishop François-Xavier Lacoursière, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbarara (Uganda) |
1969: Bishop Alfred Lanctôt, M. Afr., Bishop of Rulenge (Tanzania) |
1968: Bishop Guillaume-Joseph Trudel, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tabora (Tanzania) |
1968: Bishop Richard Cleire, M. Afr., Bishop of Kasongo (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1967: Bishop Paul-Marie Molin, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bamako (Mali) |
1966: Archbishop Joseph Kiwánuka, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Rubaga (Uganda) |
1966: Bishop John van Sambeek, M. Afr., Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania) |
1965: Bishop Louis-Marie-Joseph Durrieu, M. Afr., Bishop of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso) |
1964: Bishop Anthony van Oorschot, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbeya (Tanzania) |
1963: Bishop Alphonse Joseph Matthijsen, M. Afr., Bishop of Bunia (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1962: Bishop Laurent-François Déprimoz, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Kabgayi (Rwanda) |
1961: Bishop Joseph Ansgarius Julien, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa (Malawi) |
1957: Bishop Antoon Oomen, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Mwanza (Tanzania) |
1954: Bishop Burcardo Huwiler, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bubuka (Tanzania) |
1953: Bishop Henri Léonard, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tabora (Tanzania) |
1952: Archbishop Henri Streicher, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Uganda (Uganda) |
1952: Bishop Oscar Morin, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Navrongo (Ghana) |
1951: Bishop Laurent Tétrault, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bubuka (Tanzania) |
1950: Bishop Joseph Sweens, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Victoria-Nyanza (Tanzania) |
1949:  Archbishop Arthur Hughes, M. Afr., Titular Archbishop of Aprus and Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt |
1949: Bishop Joanny Thévenoud, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) |
1947: Bishop Victor Roelens, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Baudouinville (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1947: Bishop Joseph-Marie Birraux, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Superior General of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) |
1946: Bishop Heinrich Horst, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Lwangwa (Zambia) |
1945: Bishop Léon-Paul Classe, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Ruanda (Rwanda) |
1945: Bishop Joseph-Georges-Édouard Michaud, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Uganda (Uganda) |
1945: Bishop Edoardo Luigi Antonio Leys, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Kivu (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1942: Bishop Mathurin Guillemé, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa (Malawi) |
1942: Bishop Julien-Louis-Edouard-Marie Gorju, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Urundi (Burundi) |
1939: Archbishop Alexis Lemaître, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Carthage |
1939: Bishop Emile-Fernand Sauvant, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bamako (Mali) |
1938: Bishop Augustin-Léopold Huys, M. Afr., Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Haut-Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) |
1935: Bishop Étienne-Benoît Larue, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bangweulu (Zambia) |
1931: Bishop Jean-Joseph Hirth, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Kivu (Rwanda) |
1930: Bishop Joseph-Marie-Stanislas Dupont, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa (Malawi) |
1926: Bishop Jean Forbes, M. Afr., Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Kampala (Uganda) |
1926: Bishop John Forbes, M. Afr., Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Uganda (Uganda) |
1922: Archbishop Léon-Antoine-Augustin-Siméon Livinhac, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Victoria-Nyanza (Uganda) and Superior General of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) |
1917: Bishop Adolphe Lechaptois, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) |
1912: Bishop François Gerboin, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Unianyembé (Tanzania) |
1901: Bishop Augustin Prosper Hacquard, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Sahara and Sudan (Mali) |
1896: Bishop Antonin Guillermain, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Northern Victoria-Nyanza (Uganda) |
1890: Bishop Léonce Bridoux, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) |
1888: Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Frézal Charbonnier, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) |
>2013: Fr. Michel Merizzi, M. Afr., Apostolic Administrator of Mansa (Zambia) |
>2008: Fr. Robert Lavertu, M. Afr., Apostolic Administrator of Mpika (Zambia) |
>2006:  Fr. Justo Lacunza Balda, M. Afr., President of Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
>2004: Fr. Michel Larbubu, M. Afr., Apostolic Administrator of Laghouat (Algeria) |
2001: Mr. Joost van den Biesen, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Abercorn (Zambia) |
1994:  Fr. Xavier Seumois, M. Afr. |
>1969: Fr. Joseph Cuoq, M. Afr., Undersecretary of Secretariat for Non-Christians |
1964: Fr. Renato Landru, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of Gao (Mali) |
1964: Fr. Fernand Martin, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of Fort Jameson (Zambia) |
1957: Fr. Marcello Saint-Denis, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of Northern Nyassa (Malawi) |
1950: Fr. Agostino Guérin, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of N’Zérékoré (Guinea) |
>1947: Fr. Ludwig Haag, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of Tukuyu (Tanzania) |
1941: Fr. Gustave-Jean-Marie Nouet, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of Ghardaïa nel Sahara (Algeria) |
1938: Fr. Max Theodor Franz Donders, M. Afr., Ecclesiastical Superior of Tukuyu (Tanzania) |
1937: Fr. Marcello Paternôt, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) |
1933: Fr. Cesario Giovanni Ippolito Esquerre, M. Afr., Prefect Apostolic of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) |
>1918: Fr. Antoine Delpuch, M. Afr., Rector of Pontifical Oriental Institute |
?: Fr. Leopold Vermeersch, M. Afr. |
