Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudists), C.I.M.

Type: Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right (for Men)

Depends on: Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life

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History

1643.03.25: Established as Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudists) (English) / Congrégation de Jésus et Marie (Eudistes) (français) / Congregazione di Gesù e Maria (Eudisti) (Italiano) / Congregatio Iesu et Mariæ (Eudistarum) (latine) / C.I.M. / C.J.M.

Contact Info

Address: Via dei Querceti 15, 00184 Roma, Italy

Phone: 06.772.66.01

Superiors

Superior General:

Fr. Jean-Michel Amouriaux, C.I.M. (56) (2017.01.07 – ...)

Past Superiors

Superior General:	Fr. Camilo Bernal Hadad, C.I.M. (2012.01.02 – 2017.01.07)
Superior General:	Fr. Jean Camus, C.I.M. (2011 – 2012.01.02)
Superior General:	Fr. Michel Gérard, C.I.M. (2001 – 2011.03.11)
Superior General:	Fr. Pierre Drouin, C.I.M. (1989 – 2001)
Superior General:	Fr. Rénald Hébert, C.I.M. (1983 – 1989)
Superior General:	Fr. Clément Joseph Marie Raymond Guillon, C.I.M. (later Bishop) (1971 – 1983)
Superior General:	Fr. Fernand Lacroix, C.I.M. (later Bishop) (1966.08.19 – 1970.08.19)
Superior General:	Fr. Armand-François Le Bourgeois, C.I.M. (later Bishop) (1953 – 1966.03.22)
Superior General:	Fr. François Lebesconte, C.I.M. (1937 – 1953)
Superior General:	Fr. Charles Le Petit, C.I.M. (1935 – 1936)
Superior General:	Fr. Mathurin Jéhanno, C.I.M. (1930 – 1935)
Superior General:	Fr. Albert Lucas, C.I.M. (1919 – 1930)
Superior General:	Fr. Ange Le Doré, C.I.M. (1870 – 1919)
Superior General:	Fr. Louis Alexis Marie Gaudaire, C.I.M. (1849 – 1870)
Superior General:	Fr. Jérôme-Julien Louïs de la Morinière, C.I.M. (1830 – 1849)
Superior General:	Fr. Charles-Toussaint Blanchard, C.I.M. (1826.01.09 – 1830)
Superior General:	Fr. François Pierre Dumont, C.I.M. (1777 – 1796)
Superior General:	Fr. Pierre Le Cocq, C.I.M. (1775 – 1777)
Superior General:	Fr. Michel Lefèvre, C.I.M. (1770 – 1775)
Superior General:	Fr. Jean Prosper Auvray de Saint-André, C.I.M. (1751 – 1770)
Superior General:	Fr. Pierre Cousin, C.I.M. (1727 – 1751)
Superior General:	Fr. Guy de Fontaines de Neuilly, C.I.M. (1711 – 1727)
Superior General:	Fr. Jacques Blouet de Camilly, C.I.M. (1680 – 1711)
Superior General:	Saint Fr. Jean Eudes (John Eudes), C.I.M. (1643.03.25 – 1680.08.19)
Coadjutor Superior General:	Blessed Fr. François-Louis Hébert, C.I.M. (1782 – 1792.09.02)

Founder

Founder:

Saint Fr. Jean Eudes (John Eudes), C.I.M. (1643.03.25)

Other Former Members (1)

>2015: Fr. Jean-Benoît Gnambode, C.I.M., Apostolic Administrator of Porto Novo (Benin)

Living Bishops (1 Cardinal, 4 Bishops)

Cardinal Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal, C.I.M. (82), Cardinal-Priest of S. Dorotea and Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Cartagena (Colombia)

Bishop José Mario Bacci Trespalacios, C.I.M. (53), Bishop of Santa Marta (Colombia)

Bishop Luc Crepy, C.I.M. (66), Bishop of Versailles (France)

Bishop Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M. (82), Bishop emeritus of Évry–Corbeil-Essonnes (France)

Bishop Luis Alfonso Márquez Molina, C.I.M. (87), Titular Bishop of Turris rotunda and Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Mérida (Venezuela)

Deceased Bishops (7 Archbishops, 16 Bishops)

2023: Bishop François Thibodeau, C.I.M., Bishop of Edmundston (Canada)

2022: Bishop Pedro Nicolás Bermúdez Villamizar, C.I.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

2021: Archbishop Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Cali (Colombia)

2021: Archbishop Helímenas de Jesús Rojo Paredes, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Calabozo (Venezuela)

2014: Bishop Claude Henri Édouard Frikart, C.I.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France)

2012: Archbishop Eladio Acosta Arteaga, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (Colombia)

2012: Bishop René-Marie Ehuzu, C.I.M., Bishop of Porto Novo (Benin)

2010: Bishop Clément Joseph Marie Raymond Guillon, C.I.M., Bishop of Quimper (France)

2005: Bishop Armand-François Le Bourgeois, C.I.M., Bishop of Autun (France)

2003: Archbishop Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida (Venezuela)

1994: Bishop Fernand Lacroix, C.I.M., Bishop of Edmundston (Canada)

1992: Archbishop Germán Villa Gaviria, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Barranquilla (Colombia)

1988: Archbishop Patrick James Skinner, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland (Canada)

1976: Bishop Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo, C.I.M., Bishop of Pasto (Colombia)

1973: Bishop Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, C.I.M., Bishop of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada)

1959: Bishop Luis Pérez Hernández, C.I.M., Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia)

1958: Archbishop Joaquín Garcia Benitez, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia)

1953: Bishop Patrick Albert Bray, C.I.M., Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada)

1946: Bishop Julien-Marie Leventoux, C.I.M., Vicar Apostolic of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada)

1942: Bishop Patrice-Alexandre Chiasson, C.I.M., Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

1942: Bishop Natale de Cleene, C.I.M., Vicar Apostolic of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1916: Bishop Gustave-Maria Blanche, C.I.M., Vicar Apostolic of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada)

1878: Bishop René-Marie-Charles Poirier, C.I.M., Bishop of Roseau (Dominica)

Saints (1)

1680: Saint John Eudes (Jean Eudes), priest

Blesseds (4)

1794: Blessed Charles-Antoine-Nicolas Ancel, priest and martyr

1792: Blessed François-Louis Hébert, priest and martyr

1792: Blessed François Lefranc, priest and martyr

1792: Blessed Pierre-Claude Pottier, priest and martyr

Brazil

Igreja São João Eudes, Fortaleza, Ceará

Dominican Republic

Iglesia San Ramón Nonato, Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago, Cibao Norte

France

Basilique Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc, Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Vosges, Grand-Est

Peru

Iglesia Espíritu Santo, Arequipa, Arequipa

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Houses: 71

Members: 512 (333 priests)

Houses

Members

Congregation of Jesus and Mary (C.I.M./C.J.M.)

Eudists