Dear Spiritan brothers and sisters, Greetings from Bagamoyo! On October 3-24, 2021, more than 100 hundred professed and lay Spiritans gathered in Chapter on the beautiful coast of the Indian Ocean at the birthplace of Christian evangelization in East Africa. Inspired by the story of the first missionaries in Tanzania, where our Spiritan predecessors addressed…
The General Chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania since 3 October, has elected as General Assistant, on 21 October 2021, Albert Ndongo Assamba, from the Province of Cameroon and its current Provincial Superior. Albert Ndongo Assamba was born in Cameroon in 1971. After his perpetual religious profession in 2005, he was ordained a…
The General Chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania since 3 October, has elected on 18 October 2021 as Assistant General. Fr. Marc Botzung, a member of the Province of France where he has just completed his second mandate as Provincial Superior. Fr. Marc Botzung was born in France in 1967. He made his…
The General Chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania since 3 October, has elected as General Assistant, on 21 October 2021, Fr. Jeffrey Duaime. Fr. Jeffrey Duaime is the Provincial Superior of the United States. Fr. Jeffrey Duaime was born in the United States in 1958. He made his perpetual religious profession in 1985…
The General Chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania since 3 October, has elected as General Assistant, on 21 October 2021, Fr. Tony Neves. Fr. Tony Neves, from the province of Portugal, is currently in Rome as coordinator of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) and Interreligious Dialogue (DIR). Fr. Tony Neves was…
The General Chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania since 3 October, has elected as General Assistant, on 20 October 2021, Fr. Jude Nnorom. Fr. Jude Nnorom is a member of the province of Nigeria SE, on Mission in South Africa, where he is Superior of the Spiritan Group. Fr. Jude Nnorom was born…
The General Chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania since 3 October, has elected as General Assistant, on 20 October 2021, Fr. Philip Massawe. Fr. Philip Massawe, is a member of the Province of Tanzania and its current Provincial. Fr. Philip Massawe was born in Tanzania in 1957. He made his Perpetual Profession in…
The General Chapter of the Spiritans, taking place in Bagamoyo, Tanzania since October 3, has elected, on October 18, 2021, as its new Superior General, Fr. Alain Mayama, a member of the province of Congo Brazzaville and presently General Assistant in Rome. Alain Mayama was born in Congo Brazzaville in 1971. He made his Perpetual…
Dear Confreres and Lay Spiritan Associates, At its meeting on 15th February 2021, the General Council reviewed the current global situation in regard to the Covid-19 pandemic and decided regrettably to postpone the General Chapter indefinitely once again. In view of the recent escalation in the number of infections in several countries and the emergence…
NEW DATES FOR THE XXI GENERAL CHAPTER Dear Confreres and Lay Spiritan Associates, Greetings from the generalate in Rome. I hope and pray that you, the members of your local community and of your family are keeping safe and well in the extraordinarily difficult circumstances in which we find ourselves as a global community.