Society of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo

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The Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo ( lat. : Sacerdotalis Fraternity Missionariorum a Sancto Carolo Borromeo , religious symbol FSCB , colloquially often Karl Brotherhood ) is a Fraternity in the Roman Catholic Church and Society of Apostolic Life .

history

The Society of Priests arose in 1985 from the Comunione e Liberazione (Community and Liberation), a Roman Catholic movement founded in 1954 by the Milanese priest Luigi Giussani .

The founder and first Superior General of the Society is Massimo Camisasca , who on September 14, 1985 together with six priests founded a seminary in Via Liberiana 21 in Rome. In 1989 Ugo Cardinal Poletti received its first ecclesiastical recognition as an institute under diocesan law. The Roman Curia was recognized as a society of apostolic life and an institute of papal law on March 19, 1999 by Pope John Paul II .

The main patron saint of the brotherhood is Saint Joseph of Nazareth . The brotherhood is named after St. Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), cardinal , archbishop of Milan and an important representative of the Counter-Reformation .

organization

The Society is active in 20 countries on five continents, primarily missionary . The priests living in house communities are primarily involved in parishes, schools and universities.

The seat of the brotherhood is Rome . In Germany there is a branch in the Archdiocese of Cologne . She runs church and school pastoral care there. In Austria she looks after the (former) Servite Church in the parish of Rossau .

Paolo Pezzi FSCB has been Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mother of God of Moscow since 2007 and, as Chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Russia, head of Catholics in Russia since 2011 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Charisma and Vocation - Conversation with Paolo Sottopietra , accessed on April 23, 2011
  2. ^ Tasks of the brotherhood in the diocese of Cologne ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Website of the parish of Rossau