The Missionary Delegation "Mother of the Church"
has its new Council for the period 2015-2018.
The Missionary Delegation was founded in 2006 as a connection
link of some missionaries’ presences, especially in those countries which have
English as first or second language: UK, USA, Ireland, Jordan, the
Philippines, Kenya, and India. The Delegation has its legal headquarters in
Rome.
Has been appointed new Delegate Superior Fr. Oreste Ferrari.
The confrere, Italian from Botticino (Brescia), has dedicated his religious
life to missions. After his first year of priesthood in the community of Milan,
he has been, along with Don Luigi Piccoli, founder of the mission in Payatas, in
the Philippines (1991-1993).
After a brief presence in Nairobi, with Don
Vallauri, to start in Kenya and help in the UK (1995-1996), he has been in
Zarka, in Jordan, from1996-2002; since 2002, he has been the initiator of the
mission in India, in Bangalore and then in Kollam.
"The Superior of the Delegation is a personal delegate
of the Superior General and carries out some work for of communion and coordination between the various missions and the Director General ” (Statute
No. 3).
