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The Society of African Missions (Latin: Societas Missionum ad Afros; French: Société des Missions Africaines), also known as the SMA Fathers, is a Catholic religious society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men founded by Melchior de Marion Brésillac in 1856. [8]
In 1876, three missionaries traveling to Timbuktu were killed by desert nomads. [3] In 1878, ten missionaries departed from Algiers to establish missions at Lakes Victoria, Nyassa, and Tanganyika. [4] That same year, a caravan of missionaries arrived at the port of Mombasa and, after a three-month trek, reached Lake Victoria.
Fr. Mapeera (on the left) and Amansi (on the right) monument was constructed by the Missionaries for Africa. The first two the catholic missionaries from the Society of Missionaries of Africa to arrive in Uganda were Pere Siméon Lourdel Marpel (aka Mapeera) and brother Delmas Amans (aka Amansi). [14] [8] [11] [15]
Words of the Mapeera and Amansi monument Monument of Fr. Mapeera. The Fr. Mapeera and Brother Amansi monument in Entebbe, Uganda, was constructed by the Missionaries of Africa in the memory of Rev. Fr. Siméon Lourdel Marpel (aka Mapeera) and Brother Amansi, who were among the pioneer White Fathers who came to Uganda on 17 February 1879 and spread Christianity in Uganda.
Missionaries of Africa; Missionaries of the Poor; Missionary Oblates; Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate; Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa; Missionary Society of St. Paul; Missionhurst; Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, PEMS or, in French, Société des Missions Evangéliques de Paris; Pontifical Mission Societies; Salesian of ...
The missionaries belonged to the Catholic missionary society of White Fathers which is also known as Religious Institute of the Missionaries of Africa. They arrived in Africa on the 15th November 1878 and the missionaries included; Pere (Fr.) Siméon Lourdel Marpel (aka Mapeera and also misspelt as Simon Laudel Mapeera), brother Delmas Amans ...
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Mission Africa also supply staff to the interdenominational Theological College of Northern Nigeria (TCNN) and the Jos ECWA Theological Seminary (JETS) which is the main seminary of the Evangelical Church of West Africa. In 2006 Mission Africa and UEC commenced the Stillwaters Project, renamed Advance in 2012, which intends to establish 1500 ...