Congregation of Missionaries of the Holy Family (M.S.F.)

Also known as: Missionare von der Heiligen Familie (Deutsch) / Missionari della Sacra Famiglia (Italiano) / Congregatio Missionariorum a S. Familia (latine)

Type: Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right (for Men)

Depends on: Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life

Statistics: 69 houses, 776 members (572 priests) (2020)

Address: Via Odoardo Beccari 41, 00154 Roma, Italy

Phone: 06.575.51.92

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History

1895: Established as Congregation of Missionaries of the Holy Family (English) / Missionare von der Heiligen Familie (Deutsch) / Missionari della Sacra Famiglia (Italiano) / Congregatio Missionariorum a S. Familia (latine) / M.S.F.

Churches

12 churches

Superiors

Moderator Supremus:	Fr. Agustinus Purnama Sastrawijaya, M.S.F. (66) (2019.09.23 – ...)
Moderator Supremus:	Fr. Edmund Jan Michalski, M.S.F. (2007.10.10 – 2019.09.23)
Moderator Supremus:	Fr. Wim van der Weiden, M.S.F. (1995.10.03 – 2007.10.10)
Founder:	Fr. Jean-Baptiste Berthier, M.S. (1895)

Living Bishops (1 Archbishop, 5 Bishops)

Archbishop Justinus Harjosusanto, M.S.F. (68), Metropolitan Archbishop of Samarinda (Indonesia) and Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Indonesia

Bishop Dariusz Kałuża, M.S.F. (54), Bishop of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea)

Bishop Paulinus Yan Olla, M.S.F. (58), Bishop of Tanjung Selor (Indonesia)

Bishop Zygmunt Robaszkiewicz, M.S.F. (63), Bishop of Morombe (Madagascar)

Bishop Aloysius Maryadi Sutrisnaatmaka, M.S.F. (68), Bishop of Palangkaraya (Indonesia)

Bishop Guilherme Antônio Werlang, M.S.F. (71), Bishop of Lages (Brazil)

Deceased Bishops (1 Archbishop, 15 Bishops)

2020: Bishop José Luis Castro Medellín, M.S.F., Bishop of Tacámbaro (Mexico)

2019: Bishop Miguel Patiño Velázquez, M.S.F., Bishop of Apatzingán (Mexico)

2016: Bishop Alwin Albert Hafner, M.S.F., Bishop of Morombe (Madagascar)

2015: Bishop Franciscus Xaverius Rocharjanta Prajasuta, M.S.F., Bishop of Banjarmasin (Indonesia)

2013: Archbishop Florentinus Sului Hajang Hau, M.S.F., Metropolitan Archbishop of Samarinda (Indonesia)

2012: Bishop Wilhelmus Joannes Demarteau, M.S.F., Bishop of Banjarmasin (Indonesia)

2011: Bishop Anselmo Müller, M.S.F., Bishop of Januária (Brazil)

2006: Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Goebel, M.S.F., Bishop-Prelate of Tromsø (Norway)

1994: Bishop Francisco Xavier Nierhoff, M.S.F., Bishop of Floresta (Brazil)

1994: Bishop Yulius Aloysius Husin, M.S.F., Bishop of Palangkaraya (Indonesia)

1992: Bishop Michael Cornelis C. Coomans, M.S.F., Bishop of Samarinda (Indonesia)

1988: Bishop Joseph Zimmermann, M.S.F., Bishop of Morombe (Madagascar)

1986: Bishop Jacques Henri Romeijn, M.S.F., Bishop of Samarinda (Indonesia)

1984: Bishop João Batista Przyklenk, M.S.F., Bishop of Januária (Brazil)

1980: Bishop Johann Wember, M.S.F., Vicar Apostolic of Northern Norway (Norway)

1953: Bishop Giovanni Groen, M.S.F., Vicar Apostolic of Bandjarmasin (Indonesia)

Other Former Prelates (2)

1949: Fr. Giacomo Giovanni M. Kusters, M.S.F., Prefect Apostolic of Bandjarmasin (Indonesia)

1939: Fr. Giovanni Starcke, M.S.F., Ecclesiastical Superior of Northern Norway (Norway)

as of 2022.05.13

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