Also known as: Congregation of Discalced Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (English) / Kongregation vom Leiden Jesu Christi (Passionisten) (Deutsch) / Congregación de la Pasión (Pasionistas) (español) / Congrégation de la Passion de Jésus-Christ (Passionistes) (français) / Congregazione della Passione di Gesù Cristo (Passionisti) (Italiano) / Zgromadzenie Męki Pańskiej (Pasjoniści) (polski) / Congregação da Paixão de Jesus Cristo (Passionistas) (Português) / 耶穌苦難會 (正體中文) / Congregatio Passionis Iesu Christi (latine)
Type: Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right (for Men)
Depends on: Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life
Patron Saint: Our Lady of the Sorrows
Address: Piazza SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 13, 00184 Roma, Italy
Phone: 06.77.27.11
Superior General: | Fr. Giuseppe Adobati Carrara, C.P. (55) (2024.10.17 – ...) |
Superior General: | Fr. Joachim Xavier Rego, C.P. (2012.09.27 – 2024.10.17) |
Superior General: | Fr. Ottaviano D’Egidio, C.P. (2000 – 2012.09.27) |
Superior General: | Fr. José Augustín Orbegozo Jáuregui, C.P. (1988 – 2000) |
Superior General: | Fr. Paul Michael Boyle, C.P. (later Bishop) (1976 – 1988) |
Superior General: | Fr. Theodore Bible Foley, C.P. (1964.05.07 – 1974.10.09) |
Superior General: | Fr. Malcolm La Velle, C.P. (1952 – 1964) |
Superior General: | Fr. Alberto Deane, C.P. (later Bishop) (1946 – 1952) |
Superior General: | Fr. Tito Cerroni, C.P. (1937 – 1946) |
Superior General: | Fr. Tito Finocchi, C.P. (1931 – 1937) |
Superior General: | Fr. Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. (later Archbishop) (1926 – 1931.03.23) |
Superior General: | Fr. Silvio Di Vezza, C.P. (1914 – 1926) |
Superior General: | Fr. Geremia Angelucci, C.P. (1908 – 1914) |
Superior General: | Blessed Fr. Bernardo Maria di Gesù Silvestrelli (Cesare), C.P. (1893 – 1907) |
Superior General: | Fr. Francesco Saverio Del Principe, C.P. (1890 – 1892) |
Superior General: | Blessed Fr. Bernardo Maria di Gesù Silvestrelli (Cesare), C.P. (1878 – 1889) |
Superior General: | Fr. Bernardo Prelini, C.P. (1875 – 1878) |
Superior General: | Fr. Domenico Giacchini, C.P. (1869 – 1875) |
Superior General: | Fr. Pietro Paolo Cayro, C.P. (1863 – 1869) |
Superior General: | Fr. Antonio Testa, C.P. (1839 – 1862) |
Superior General: | Fr. Antonio Colombo, C.P. (1827 – 1839) |
Superior General: | Fr. Paolo Luigi Pighi, C.P. (1820 – 1827) |
Superior General: | Fr. Tommaso Albesano, C.P. (1809 – 1820) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giuseppe Maria Claris, C.P. (1796 – 1809) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giovanni Battista Gorresio, C.P. (1790 – 1796) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giovanni Maria Cioni, C.P. (1784 – 1790) |
Superior General: | Fr. Giovanni Battista Gorresio, C.P. (1778 – 1784) |
Superior General: | Saint Fr. Paolo Francesco Danei (Paul of the Cross), C.P. (1741 – 1775.10.18) |
Vicar General: | Fr. Francesco Saverio Del Principe, C.P. (1889 – 1890) |
Vicar General: | Fr. Giovanni Battista Gorresio, C.P. (1775 – 1778) |
Founder: | Saint Fr. Paolo Francesco Danei (Paul of the Cross), C.P. (1720) |
2017: Fr. Michele Di Simone, C.P., Prefect Apostolic of Sekadau (Indonesia) |
>2016: Fr. Ciro Benedettini, C.P., Deputy Director of Press Office of the Holy See |
>2013: Fr. Fernando Domingos Costa, C.P., Apostolic Administrator of Pemba (Mozambique) |
>1991: Fr. David Wilkie, C.P., Apostolic Administrator of Vanimo (Papua New Guinea) |
>1982: Fr. Domenico Luca Spinosi, C.P., Prefect Apostolic of Sekadau (Indonesia) |
1941: Fr. Stanislao dell’Addolorata, C.P., Prefect Apostolic of Dodoma (Tanzania) |
1939: Fr. Dominic Langenbacher (藍堅牧), C.P., Prefect Apostolic of Chenzhou 辰州 (China) |
1874: Msgr. Joseph Pluym, C.P., Apostolic Administrator of Constantinopole (Turkiye) |
Archbishop Washington Cruz, C.P. (78), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Goiânia (Brazil) |
Archbishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa, C.P. (69), Archbishop-Bishop of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (Brazil) |
Bishop Jesús María Aristín Seco, C.P. (70), Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas (Peru) |
Bishop Tommaso Cascianelli, C.P. (76), Bishop emeritus of Irecê (Brazil) |
Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (61), Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) |
Bishop-elect José Roberto dos Reis, C.P. (47), Titular Bishop of Feradi minus and Auxiliary Bishop of Goiânia (Brazil) |
Bishop Pedro Luis Fuentes Valencia, C.P. (56), Titular Bishop of Temuniana, Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia) and Apostolic Administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Bolivia (Bolivia) |
Bishop Leonard William Kenney, C.P. (78), Titular Bishop of Midica and Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Birmingham (England) |
Bishop Emery Kibal Mansong’loo, C.P. (55), Bishop of Kole (Congo-Kinshasa) |
Bishop Giulio Mencuccini, C.P. (78), Bishop emeritus of Sanggau (Indonesia) |
Bishop Valentinus Saeng, C.P. (55), Bishop of Sanggau (Indonesia) |
Bishop Neil Edward Tiedemann, C.P. (76), Titular Bishop of Cova and Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Brooklyn (USA) |
1934: Saint Inocencio de la Inmaculada (Manuel Canoura Arnau), priest and martyr |
1893: Saint Karel van Sint Andries (Joannes Andreas Houben), priest |
1862: Saint Gabriele dell’Addolorata (Francesco Possenti), religious |
1824: Saint Vincenzo Maria Strambi, bishop |
1775: Saint Paul of the Cross (Paolo Francesco Danei), priest |
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