Josephites of Belgium (C.I./C.J.)

Also known as: Congrégation des Joséphites (français) / Giuseppini del Belgio (Italiano) / Institutum Iosephitarum Gerardimontensium (latine) / Kongregation der Josephiten (Deutsch) / Congregatie van de Jozefieten (Nederlands)

Type: Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right (for Men)

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

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History

Contact Info

Address: Karmelietenstraat, 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium

Phone: (032) 54.41.21.19

Superiors

Superior General:Congo-KinshasaFr. Jacob Beya Kadumbu, C.I. (66)Fr. Jacob Beya Kadumbu, C.I. (66) (2016 – ...)

Past Superiors

Superior General:Fr. Robert D. Hamilton, C.I. (2001 – 2016)
Superior General:Fr. J. Richard Lear, C.I. (1996 – 2001)
Superior General:Fr. Guillermo C. García, C.I. (1990 – 1996)
Superior General:Fr. Jean-Marie Vander Stricht, C.I. (1989 – 1990)
Superior General:Fr. John Mayhew, C.I. (1983 – 1989)
Superior General:Fr. Leonard de Kort, C.I. (1974 – 1983)
Superior General:Fr. Emmanuel Devroye, C.I. (1962 – 1974)
Superior General:Fr. George Kean, C.I. (1956 – 1962)
Superior General:Fr. Hubert Trévis, C.I. (1950 – 1956)
Superior General:Fr. Hilaire Sterckx, C.I. (1938 – 1950)
Superior General:Fr. Théophile De Paepe, C.I. (1933 – 1938)
Superior General:Fr. Antonin Wicart, C.I. (1922 – 1932)
Superior General:Fr. Felix Vlieghe, C.I. (1899 – 1922)
Superior General:Fr. Gustave De Meyer, C.I. (1893 – 1898)
Superior General:Fr. Félicien Campe, C.I. (1869 – 1893)
Superior General:Fr. Remi de Saedeleer, C.I. (1860 – 1869)
Superior General:Fr. Stanislas De Haeck, C.I. (1851 – 1860)
Superior General:Fr. Ignatius van den Bossche, C.I. (1817 – 1851)

Founder

Founder:BelgiumFr. Constant Guillaume van Crombrugghe (1817)

Deceased Bishops (1 Bishop)

1988: Congo-KinshasaBishop Marcel Evariste van Rengen, C.I., Bishop of Mweka (Congo-Kinshasa)

Cameroon Cameroon

England England

France France

Gabon Gabon

USA USA

Statistics (2018.12.31)

Houses: 9

Members: 126 (61 priests)

Houses

Members

Last updated on 2025.02.18

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