Congregation of the Passion
Passionists

(Institute of Consecrated Life - Men)

Congregatio Passionis Iesu Christi

Leader(s)

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Institute of Consecrated Life - Men
Founded: 1720
Clerical Religious Congregation
Official Web Site: http://www.passiochristi.org/
Mailing Address: Piazza SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 13, 00184 Roma, Italia
Telephone: 06.77.27.11
Fax: 06.70.08.454

Past and Present Leaders

Malcolm Francis J. LaVelle, C.P. † ( 1952 Appointed - 1964 Ceased)
Theodore Bible Foley, C.P. † (7 May 1964 Appointed - 9 Oct 1974 Died)
Paul Michael Boyle, C.P. † ( 1976 Appointed - 1988 Ceased)

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
1720	Founded		Congregation of the Passion
1741	Approbation		Congregation of the Passion

Statistics

Year Religious Priests Male Religious Houses Source

1954 3,550 ap1955

1959 3,870 ap1960

1963 4,015 ap1964

1966 2,725 4,340 211 ap1967

1967 2,744 4,350 219 ap1968

1971 2,700 3,767 415 ap1972

1974 2,557 3,396 434 ap1975

1976 2,454 3,239 425 ap1977

1977 2,438 3,194 426 ap1978

1981 2,343 3,052 435 ap1982

1986 2,200 2,855 429 ap1987

1990 2,028 2,713 ap1991

1991 2,005 2,694 419 ap1992

1995 1,874 2,570 409 ap1996

2000 1,793 2,391 ap2001

2001 1,786 2,356 ap2002

2002 1,783 2,351 391 ap2003

2004 1,755 2,329 383 ap2005

2009 1,653 2,167 363 ap2010

2010 1,647 2,169 365 ap2011

2011 1,639 2,123 361 ap2012

2012 1,618 2,123 353 ap2013

2013 1,621 2,125 363 ap2014

2014 1,598 2,083 365 ap2015

2017 1,540 1,964 361 ap2018

2020 1,466 1,923 359 ap2021

2022 1,402 1,848 352 ap2023

Affiliated Members, Living

Jesús María Aristín Seco, C.P. (Member: 14 Apr 1979; Priest: 23 Sep 1979 to 17 Dec 2016)
Tommaso Cascianelli, C.P. (Member: 28 Sep 1964; Priest: 7 Apr 1973 to 5 Jul 2000)
Washington Cruz, C.P. (Priest: 25 Jul 1971 to 10 Feb 1987)
Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (Member: 18 Jan 1997; Priest: 17 Dec 2000 to 7 Jun 2017)
Pedro Luis Fuentes Valencia, C.P. (Member: 1998; Priest: 19 Jun 2004 to 22 Feb 2022)
William (Leonard) Kenney, C.P. (Member: 26 Sep 1963; Priest: 29 Jun 1969 to 13 May 1987)
Emery Kibal Nkufi Mansong’loo, C.P. (Member: 31 Jul 1998; Priest: 2 Aug 1998 to 6 May 2015)
Luiz Fernando Lisboa, C.P. (Member: 23 Jan 1977; Priest: 10 Dec 1983 to 12 Jun 2013)
Giulio Mencuccini, C.P. (Member: 5 Sep 1964; Priest: 6 Aug 1973 to 22 Jan 1990)
Valentinus Saeng, C.P. (Member: 1989; Priest: 26 Sep 1998 to 18 Jun 2022)
Domenico Luca Spinosi, C.P. (Member: 15 May 1954; Priest: 26 Feb 1961)
Neil Edward Tiedemann, C.P. (Member: 22 Aug 1971; Priest: 16 May 1975 to 20 May 2008)

Affiliated Members, Deceased

Hippolyte-Louis Agosto, C.P. †
Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P. † (Member: 15 Aug 1928; Priest: 28 Apr 1934 to 18 Nov 1969)
José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, C.P. † (Priest: 1 Feb 1964 to 26 Nov 1991)
Stanislao Amilcare Battistelli, C.P. † (Member: 16 Jun 1907; Priest: 19 Sep 1908 to 24 Jun 1932)
Leonard Ludwig Baumbach, C.P. † (Priest: 1880 to 1 Mar 1910)
Bl. Vincent Eugène Bossilkov (Bossilkoff), C.P. † (Member: 18 Apr 1919; Priest: 25 Jul 1926 to 26 Jul 1947)
Paul Michael Boyle, C.P. † (Member: 9 Jul 1946; Priest: 30 May 1953 to 15 Apr 1991; Superior General: 1976 to 1988)
Michele Cardella, C.P. † (Priest: 19 Sep 1868 to 30 Nov 1896)
Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández, C.P. † (Priest: 21 Sep 1929 to 7 Mar 1953)
Costantino Costa, C.P. †
Alberto Deane, C.P. † (Priest: 28 Apr 1933 to 13 Mar 1957)
Stanislao dell’Addolorata, C.P. †
Michele Di Simone, C.P. † (Member: 15 Sep 1947; Priest: 9 May 1954 to 31 Jul 1968)
Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P. † (Member: 15 Aug 1949; Priest: 28 Apr 1956 to 10 Jan 1986)
Henri Doulcet, C.P. † (Priest: 18 Oct 1888 to 7 Jan 1895)
Martin Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, C.P. † (Priest: 13 Jul 1924 to 15 Jan 1949)
Fortunato Maria Ercolani, C.P. †
John Etheridge, C.P. † (Priest: 13 Jan 1971 to 24 Apr 1980)
Eugenio Raffaele Faggiano, C.P. † (Priest: 31 May 1903 to 15 Feb 1936)
Francesco Maria Ferreri, C.P. †
Afonso Fioreze, C.P. † (Member: 3 Feb 1964; Priest: 26 Jul 1970 to 5 Nov 2003)
Theodore Bible Foley, C.P. † (Member: 15 Aug 1933; Priest: 23 Apr 1940; Superior General: 7 May 1964 to 9 Oct 1974)
Nicolas Giannelli, C.P. †
Joseph Augustin Hagendorens, C.P. † (Priest: 2 Jan 1921 to 28 Jul 1936)
Carlos Francisco Hanlon, C.P. † (Priest: 20 Sep 1913 to 13 Sep 1934)
Miguel Irizar Campos, C.P. † (Priest: 16 Mar 1957 to 25 Mar 1972)
José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P. † (Member: 26 May 1946; Priest: 29 Mar 1952 to 30 May 1998)
Atanasio Celestino Jáuregui y Goiri, C.P. † (Priest: 6 Apr 1901 to 3 Jun 1936)
Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (Priest: 22 Dec 1906 to 23 Mar 1931)
Dominic Francis Langenbacher, C.P. † (Member: 16 Jan 1900; Priest: 30 Jun 1906 to 16 Jul 1925)
Malcolm Francis J. LaVelle, C.P. † (Member: 30 Oct 1926; Priest: 22 Dec 1929; Superior General: 1952 to 1964)
Jesús Agustín López de Lama, C.P. † (Priest: 14 Mar 1954 to 10 Jun 1966)
Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P. † (Member: 23 Jul 1950; Priest: 27 Mar 1956 to 14 Dec 1991)
Eduardo Pedro Martínez y Dalmau, C.P. † (Priest: 30 Sep 1915 to 16 Nov 1935)
Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P. † (Member: 15 Sep 1931; Priest: 23 Sep 1939 to 9 Nov 1960)
Giuseppe-Maria Molajoni, C.P. † (Member: 1804 to 23 Sep 1825)
Pietro Paolo Camillo Moreschini, C.P. † (Member: 9 Jul 1876 to 29 Apr 1909)
Urban Charles Joseph Murphy, C.P. † (Priest: 25 May 1945 to 24 Apr 1959)
Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, C.P. † (Member: 8 Sep 1953; Priest: 30 Aug 1959 to 23 Jul 1993)
Henry John Paul Joseph Nussbaum, C.P. † (Member: 24 Jul 1887; Priest: 20 May 1894 to 4 Apr 1913)
Cutbert Martin O’Gara, C.P. † (Member: 18 Oct 1914; Priest: 26 May 1915 to 28 May 1934)
Gregorio Elias Olazar Muruaga, C.P. † (Priest: 15 Sep 1935 to 11 Dec 1952)
Charles Quentin Bertram Olwell, C.P. † (Priest: 4 Feb 1923 to 19 Jan 1961)
Venancio Celestino Orbe Uriarte, C.P. † (Priest: 7 Aug 1949 to 25 Aug 1967)
Paolo Giuseppe Palma, C.P. †
Ignazio Paoli, C.P. †
Angelo Parsi, C.P. †
José Mauro Pereira Bastos, C.P. † (Member: 1981; Priest: 7 Jul 1984 to 5 Jul 2000)
Giovanni Battista Peruzzo, C.P. † (Member: 26 Jul 1894; Priest: 13 Jan 1901 to 5 Jan 1924)
Anthony Jeremiah Pesce, C.P. † (Priest: 24 Sep 1932 to 10 May 1951)
Antonio Giuseppe Pluym, C.P. † (Priest: 24 Oct 1832 to 15 Sep 1863)
Gabriel Willem Sillekens, C.P. † (Priest: 10 May 1936 to 2 Apr 1962)
St. Vincenzo Maria Strambi, C.P. † (Priest: 19 Dec 1767 to 20 Jul 1801)
Tommaso Struzzieri, C.P. † (Priest: 16 Apr 1745 to 12 Oct 1764)
Paschal Sweeney, C.P. † (Priest: 11 Jul 1935 to 20 Sep 1963)
Damian Johannes Theelen, C.P. † (Priest: 23 Sep 1899 to 21 May 1915)
Salvatore Vaccari, O.F.M. † (Member: 29 Jun 1822; Priest: 27 Sep 1827 to 10 Aug 1861)
Estanislau Arnoldo Van Melis, C.P. † (Priest: 10 May 1936 to 26 Nov 1962)

Source(s)

Annuario Pontificio, Year 2018, Page 1,393
Annuario Pontificio, Year 2021, Page 1,367
Annuario Pontificio, Year 2023, Page 1,401

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