Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( Latin : Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae ; Order abbreviation : CICM ) is a Roman Catholic male order that was initially intended for the China mission .

history

The order was founded in 1862 in Scheut, a suburb of Brussels , Belgium , by the Belgian secular priest Théophile Verbist . He was on July 20, 1900 by Pope Leo XIII. recognized by the church. The official ecclesiastical denomination refers to the spirituality of this community, at the center of which is the special veneration of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Mother Mary .

Initially, the missionary work of the Chinese Empire was the focus of the missionary interests of the founder of the order. Later the missionary mandate expanded to the whole world. Currently more than 1000 priest and brother monks work in 23 countries on all continents.

In the German-speaking area the community is known under the names:

• Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
• Missionaries of the Scheut Society
• Missionaries von Scheut
• Shy missionaries
• Scheutvelder missionaries

General Superior

1. Teophiel Verbist (1862-1865)
2. Frans Vranckx (1869-1888)
3. Jeroom Van Aertselaer (1888-1898)
4. Adolf Van Hecke (1898-1908)
5. Albert Botty (1908-1909)
6. Florent Mortier (1909-1920)
7. Joseph Rutten (1920-1930)
8. Constantin Daems (June 23, 1930 - December 11, 1934)
9. Jozef Vandeputte (1935-1957)
10. Frans Sercu (1957-1961)
11. Omer Degrijse (1961-1967)
12. Wim Goossens (1967-1974)
13. Paul Van Daelen (1974-1987)
14. Michel Decraene (1987-1993)
15. Jacques Thomas (1993-1999)
16. Jozef Lapauw (September 20, 1999 - July 23, 2005)
17. Edouard Tsimba Ngoma (2005 - ...)

Known members of the order

• Louis Van Dyck (1862–1937), Vicar Apostolic of Hohhot in southern Mongolia, China
• Godfried Frederix (1866–1938), Vicar Apostolic in North Kansu and later from Ningsia [Yinchuan] in China
• Everard ter Laak (1868–1931), Vicar Apostolic of Chahar, in China
• Leo Bittremieux (1880–1946), missionary in the Congo, linguist and ethnologist in Mayombe country
• Edmond van Genechten (1903–1974), missionary in China and painter
• William Brasseur (1903–1993), Titular Bishop of Agathonice and Vicar Apostolic of Mountain Provinces (Montagnosa), Philippines
• Félix Scalais (1904–1967), Archbishop of Léopoldville , Congo
• Frans Van den Bergh (1907–1976), Bishop of Budjala , Congo
• Dries van Coillie (1912–1998), missionary in China and author
• Jan Van Cauwelaert (1914–2016), Bishop of Inongo , Congo
• Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte (1928–2005), General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops and President of the Labor Office of the Apostolic See
• Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi (1930-2007), Archbishop of Kinshasa , Congo
• Carlito Cenzon (1939–2019), Bishop of Baguio , Philippines
• Wenceslao Selga Padilla (1949–2018), Bishop of Ulan Bator , Mongolia

Web links

Commons : CICM Missionaries  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Footnotes

1. ↑ René Oosterlinck: “Naar Xiwanzi!” In de foetsporen van de CICM missionaries . In: Verbiest Koerier , vol. 26 (2015), December issue, pp. 9–13.