Peramiho
Peramiho is a place in the Ruvuma region in southwestern Tanzania , about 80 km east of the shore of Lake Malawi. Peramiho is a good 25 km west-northwest of the provincial capital Songea and around 600 km (as the crow flies) from Dar es Salaam . In the German-speaking area, Peramiho is best known for the Abbey of the Mission Benedictines and the Priory of the Mission Benedictine Sisters .
Today's abbey was founded in 1898 by Father Cassian Spiß to evangelize the - then non-Christian - population of Ungoni . In 1931 Peramiho became a territorial abbey and thus the center of the Benedictine mission in the southwest of what is now Tanzania. The abbot of Peramiho was also bishop of the mission area until 1969 (svw. Abbishop ). In 1969 the territory was separated from the abbey. The Archdiocese of Songea and the two dioceses of Njombe and Mbinga emerged from the territory .
The abbey now has around 70 monks and has been headed by Abbot Anastasius (Gunter) Reiser from Münsterschwarzach Abbey since 2006 . Gallus Steiger (1931–1953), Eberhard Spieß (1953–1976) and Lambert Dörr (1976–2006) were Reiser's predecessors in office. Until 1982 the convent consisted only of German-speaking monks, since then Africans have also been accepted, so that most of the monks are now Tanzanians (November 2008: 38 Tanzanians, 29 Germans, 2 Swiss, one Filipino and one Malawian). In Uwemba near Njombe , the abbey maintains a dependent priory.
There is also a monastery of St. Agnes Benedictine Sisters of Chipole and a regional seminary in Peramiho . The Missionary Benedictine Sisters run a secondary school for girls aged 13 to 19, the abbey runs numerous workshops, a craft school and a hospital run by Benedictines such as (from 1988) the doctor and clergyman Ansgar Stüfe (* 1952) St. Josef Hospital . Some of the projects of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters are financed together with donors, foundations and others, including the PATRIZIA KinderHaus Foundation , which in 2002 supported the construction of a new children's ward in the Mission's hospital in Peramiho. Electricity is generated by a hydroelectric power station in Likingo (approx. 20 km away) and fed to Peramiho.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Mettenleiter : Personal reports, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 296.
Coordinates: 10 ° 38 ′ S , 35 ° 28 ′ E