Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions (S.P.S.)

Also known as: St. Patrick’s Gesellschaft für auswärtige Missionen (Deutsch) / Società di San Patrizio per le Missioni Estere (Italiano) / Societas Sancti Patritii pro Missionibus ad Exteros (latine)

Address: St. Patrick's, Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Phone: (508) 73.600

Website:

History

1932.03.17: Established as Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions (English) / St. Patrick’s Gesellschaft für auswärtige Missionen (Deutsch) / Società di San Patrizio per le Missioni Estere (Italiano) / Societas Sancti Patritii pro Missionibus ad Exteros (latine) / S.P.S.

Superiors

Superior General:	Fr. Seamus O’Neill, S.P.S. (? – ...)
Founder:	Fr. Patrick Joseph Whitney, S.P.S. (later Msgr.) (1932.03.17)

Living Bishops (1 Archbishop, 3 Bishops)

Archbishop Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S. (62), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Benin City (Nigeria)

Bishop Derek John Christopher Byrne, S.P.S. (63), Bishop of Guiratinga (Brazil)

Bishop Maurice Anthony Crowley, S.P.S. (65), Bishop of Kitale (Kenya)

Bishop John Magee, S.P.S. (75), Bishop emeritus of Cloyne (Ireland)

Deceased Bishops (6 Bishops)

2010: Bishop Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P.S., Bishop emeritus of Warri (Nigeria)

2004: Bishop John Christopher Mahon, S.P.S., Bishop emeritus of Lodwar (Kenya)

2002: Bishop William Dunne, S.P.S., Bishop emeritus of Kitui (Kenya)

1988: Bishop Thomas McGettrick, S.P.S., Bishop emeritus of Abakaliki (Nigeria)

1985: Bishop James Moynagh, S.P.S., Bishop emeritus of Calabar (Nigeria)

1975: Bishop Joseph Brendan Houlihan, S.P.S., Bishop emeritus of Eldoret (Kenya)

Other Former Prelates (1)

>1971: Fr. Denis Newman, S.P.S., Apostolic Administrator emeritus of Nakuru (Kenya)

as of 2012.01.01