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Below is a list of the Religious Communities from Vietnam and the
various countries in Africa who are sending Sisters to Assumption
College for Sisters. Information about their founding, and
ministry in their countries is also provided for your information.
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Religious Community – Daughters of Mary
Initials – DM
Founder/Foundress – Archbishop Joseph
Edward Michaud
Year of Founding – 1933
Place of Founding – Tabora, Tanzania
Place of Ministry – Tanzania
Types of Ministry – Health care, Teaching,
Pastoral
work
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Religious Community – African Benedictine Sisters of St. Agnes
Initials – OSB
Founder/Foundress – Bishop Gallus Steiger, OSB, a
missionary from
Saint Ottilien, Germany
Year of Founding – As a Congregation of St. Agnes
founded in 1938,
and as a community of
St. Gertrude Convent Imiliwaha in
Tanzania, founded in 1968.
Place of Founding – Tanzania
Place of Ministry – Tanzania and Italy
Types of Ministry – Education, Health care, Pastoral
ministry,
Social work, especially among
women and children, and care of
orphans
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Religious Community – The Daughters of
Our Lady if Visitation
Initials – DOLV
Founder/Foundress – Father Joseph Than
Van Trang
Year of Founding – 1924
Place of Founding – Kim Doi, Vietnam
Place of Ministry – Vietnam
Types of Ministry – Social work, taking care
of the poor
children, educating
young women, teaching children,
services in local parishes,
counseling and helping the women
who have abortions
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Religious Community – Sisters of the Holy Rosary
Initials – SHR
Founder/Foundress – Msgr.
Marcel St. Denis,WF
Year of Founding – 1951
Place of Founding – Mzuzu
Diocese, Malawi
Place of Ministry – Mzuzu
Diocese,
Malawi
Types of Ministry – Health Care, Teaching,
Catechesis,
Social Work, caring for orphans
and handicapped children
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Religious Community – Lovers of the Holy Cross of Nha Trang
Initials – LHC
Founder/Foundress – Bishop Lambert
de la Motte
Year of Founding – 1670
Place of Founding – Nha Trang, Khanh
Hoa,
Vietnam
Place of Ministry – Vietnam,
Norway,
United
States
Types of Ministry – Social Work, Health
care, Education of
women and
children
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Religious Community – Franciscan Sisters of St.
Bernadette
of Lourdes
Initials – FSSB
Founder/Foundress – Bishop Alfred Lanchont,
White Father from Canada
Year of Founding – 1958
Place of Founding – Rulenge, Kagera,
Tanzania
Place of Ministry – Tanzania
Types of Ministry – Education, Pastoral ministry,
promoting
Catholic Organizations, working
with refugees, women and
children, Health
care, care of orphans and the disabled
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Religious Community – Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood
Initials – CPS
Founder/Foundress – Abbot Francis Pfanner and Sr. Paula Emunds
Year of Founding – 1885
Place of Founding – Mariannhill
South
Africa
Place of Ministry – Kenya,
Tanzania, Sudan,
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Congo,
Mozambique, Zambia
Germany,
Denmark, Austria, Netherlands,
South Korea, Papua New Guinea,
Portugal,
Rumania,
Canada,
United States
Types of Ministry – Education, Social work,
Health care, Retreat, Ministry to the
specially challenged, Care of the
elderly, Pastoral and Parish work,
Catechesis, AIDS ministry, Feeding
the poor programs
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Religious Community – Congregation of the Holy Rosary
Initials – FSM
Founder/Foundress – Bishop Dominic Maria
Ho Ngoc Can
Year of Founding – 1946
Place of Founding – Bui
Chu,
Vietnam
Place of Ministry – Vietnam,
Italy, France,
United States,
Types of Ministry –
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Religious Community – Missionary Sisters of
the Immaculate
Conception of the
Mother of God
Initials – SMIC
Founder/Foundress – Bishop Amandus
Behlmann, OFM and
Mother
Immaculata Tombrock
Year of Founding – 1910
Place of Founding – Santarem,
Para,
Brazil
Place of Ministry – Brazil,
United States,
Germany, Namibia, Taiwan
Types of Ministry – Pastoral works of mercy,
Hospital work,
Education
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Religious Community – Daughters of St. Francis
of Asissi
Initials – FSF
Founder/Foundress – Bishop Aolbero Michael
Flesher, CMM
Year of Founding – 1922
Place of Founding – Port Shepstone,
South
Africa
Place of Ministry – South
Africa
Types of Ministry – Education, Nursing, Social work,
Pastoral
work, Prison ministry, Orphanages,
Ministers, running
Retreat centers, Child
care workers, Hospital Administration
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