List of religious provinces of the Society of Jesus
This is a list of religious provinces of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ). It includes both historical and current provinces. The provincial is the head of a religious province . Delegates from the Order Provinces elect the Superior General of the Order ( Father General ).
Today (as of 2013) the company is divided into 83 provinces, 6 independent regions and 10 dependent regions (“83 provinces, 6 Independent Regions and 10 Dependent Regions”). The list does not claim to be complete or up-to-date.
The complexity of a geographical assignment in the constant change of a long history of the order is evident from sentences such as the following:
“The Upper German Order Province (1556 to 1773) included Bavaria, Eastern Swabia, parts of Württemberg, Vorarlberg, Baden, Alsace (until 1659), Switzerland and Tyrol. From the Upper German Order Province founded in 1556, the Austrian and Bohemian Order Province were separated in 1563, and in 1770 the Bavarian Order Province was separated from the Upper German Order Province. The Lower German Order Province, which was also founded in 1556, was divided into the Rhenish and Belgian Order Province in 1564, and the Rhenish Order Province in 1626 in turn into the Upper Rhine and the Lower Rhine Order Province. "
The new German Order Province, for example, includes the territory of Germany , Denmark and Sweden . Johannes Siebner , who took office on June 1, 2017, was appointed its new Provincial .
Overview by continents (incomplete)
(includes both historical and current provinces)
| region | Jesuit | percent |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | 1509 | 9% |
| South Latin America | 1221 | 7% |
| North Latin America | 1226 | 7% |
| South asia | 4016 | 23% |
| Asia Pacific | 1639 | 9% |
| Central and Eastern Europe | 1641 | 10% |
| Southern Europe | 2027 | 12% |
| Western Europe | 1541 | 9% |
| North America | 2467 | 14% |
Europe
- Bavarian Order Province
- Belgian Order Province
- Bohemian Order Province
- German Order Province
- Galician Order Province
- Croatian Order Province
- Neapolitan Order Province
- Low German order province
- Lower Rhine Order Province
- North German province
- Upper German order province
- Upper Rhine Order Province
- Austrian Order Province
- Order Province of Portugal
- Order of the Province of Toledo
- East German Province
- Provincia Hungariae (Austro-Hungarian Order Province)
- Rhenish order province
- Swiss Order Province
- Southern German order province
- Venetian Order Province
Asia
- Order of India
- Order of Japan
America
- Religious Province of Brazil (with the Vice Province of Maranhão)
- Order Province of Chile
- Order Province of Quito
- Order of the Province of New Granada
- Order Province of Peru
- Order of Paraguay
See also
References and footnotes
- ^ A b Society of Jesus Curia Generalis: From the Curia - THE SOCIETY OF JESUS IN NUMBERS . In: The Jesuit Portal - Society of Jesus Homepage (Ed.): Digital News Service SJ . 17, No. 10, April 10, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2018. “The new statistics of the Society of Jesus as of January 1st, 2013 have been published. [...] As of January 1, 2013, the total number of Jesuits was 17,287 [...] - a net loss of 337 members from January 1, 2012. "
- ↑ archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de ( Order colleges of the Society of Jesus under Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria (1598–1651) ; Author: Wolfgang Walter Scheibel) - accessed on June 18, 2018.
- ↑ Jesuits (section: Jesuits in Germany) - orden-online.de (accessed June 18, 2018)
- ↑ Johannes Siebner SJ becomes the new Provincial of the German Province of the Jesuits ( Memento from June 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) - jesuiten.org (accessed June 18, 2018)
- ↑ see also: La Pairelle branch