Also known as:
Foreign Missions of Paris, Society of Foreign Missions of Paris;
French: MEP, Missions Étrangères de Paris, Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris
SOCIETY FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS OF PARIS. - It is the oldest exclusively missionary Institute, founded in 1660 by the first apostolic vicars of eastern Asia, François Pallu (v.) and Pierre Lambert de la Motte, and approved by Propaganda on 11 Aug. 1864.
From its foundation it was entrusted with the missions of Siam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, western and southern China; in 1776 the Malabar mission in India was also assigned to it, in 1831 that of Korea and Japan; in 1841 that of Malacca; in 1848 that of Manchuria; in 1855 that of Burma.
The special purpose of the Society is the apostolate among unbelievers. It is a Society, without vows, of secular priests, who may not accept any assignment in Europe unless they have first been at least five years in mission. Since its foundation the Society has had 120 missionaries massacred, of whom 16 have already been beatified. In 1952 it counted 930 members, who had made the « bon propos », equivalent to the oath of the other societies; 140 seminarians in the two Seminaries of philosophy and theology, and about a hundred boys in the minor Seminary. In the same year the Society was working in 28 missions, located in Korea, Manchuria, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Siam, Malacca, Burma, India. Its missionaries, moreover, work under the direction of native bishops in nine other missions of Japan, China, Vietnam, India. In the last twenty-five years it has ceded to the native clergy fifteen missions in Japan, Korea, Manchuria, China, Vietnam, Siam, India.
The 37 missions entrusted to the Society have an area of 3,133,000 sq. km. with a population of 182 million inhabitants, of whom 1,784,000 are Catholics. - See pl. LV.
Plate LVAbove: SEMINARY FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. Mother House - Paris.Below: SEMINARY FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. Studentate - Bièvres.(per cortesia del Superiore del Seminario delle Missioni Estere)Bibliography3 worksA. Launay, Hist. génér. de la Soc. des Missions Étrangères, 3 vols., Paris 1894; id., La Soc. des Missions Étrangères, ibid. 1923; G. Goyau,
BIBL.: A. Launay, Hist. génér. de la Soc. des Missions Étrangères, 3 vols., Paris 1894; id., La Soc. des Missions Étrangères, ibid. 1923; G. Goyau, Les prêtres des Missions Étrangères, ibid. 1932.
Anoge, Antonio. “Società Per Le Missioni Estere di Parigi.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, p. 523. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/societa-per-le-missioni-estere-di-parigi.
MLA
Anoge, Antonio. “Società Per Le Missioni Estere di Parigi.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, p. 523. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/societa-per-le-missioni-estere-di-parigi.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_societa_per_le_missioni_estere,
author = {Anoge, Antonio},
title = {Società Per Le Missioni Estere di Parigi},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/societa-per-le-missioni-estere-di-parigi}
}
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