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The Jesuits engaged in conflict with the episcopal hierarchy over the question of payment of tithes, the ten percent tax on agriculture levied on landed estates for support of the church hierarchy from bishops and cathedral chapters to parish priests. Since the Jesuits were the largest religious order holding real estate, surpassing the ...
Jerome D'Souza – Indian Jesuit, member of the Constituent Assembly of India 1946–50; José Manuel Gallegos – Priest and New Mexico delegate from 1853 to 1856; Ivan Grubišić – Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and independent representative in the Croatian Parliament; Andrej Hlinka – Slovak public activist and Catholic priest
Fr. Joseph O'Callahan (right), a Jesuit priest, is presented with the Medal of Honor by President Truman. Claude Dablon, Superior General of all the Canadian missions (1670-1680) Saint Antoine Daniel, North American martyr; Cardinal Jean Daniélou, author, scholar, and member of the French Academy; Alfred Delp, German hanged for his opposition ...
The Jesuit provinces were first organized into an "assistancy" (a regional grouping of provinces), [16] called the Jesuit Conference of the United States, in 1972. [17] A new, consolidated assistancy was created in 2014, called the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States , under which all the provinces in the two countries are organized.
"Black Pope" is an unofficial designation given to the position of Superior General of the Order of the Jesuits. [2] The name follows from his leadership of the largest Catholic, male religious order [3] and from the colour of the plain black cassock worn by members of the Society, including the Superior General. [4]
[1]: 73 Some converted Iroquois and members of other nations migrated to Canada, where they joined the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake by 1718. The Jesuit mission at Detroit was moved to Bois Blanc Island in 1742. The mission was later reestablished in the vicinity of present-day Windsor, closer to the defences at Detroit. The Huron mission ...
Jesuit Church, Sibiu, Romania (1726-1733) Jesuit Church, Mannheim , Germany (1733-1756) Jesuit Chapel (Quebec City) , Canada (1818-1820, expanded 1857, new facade 1930)
The Spanish missionary Joseph of Anchieta was, together with Manuel da Nóbrega, the first Jesuit that Ignacio de Loyola sent to the Americas. In the 16th century, priests of different religious orders set out to evangelize the Americas, bringing Christianity to indigenous communities.