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The Oblate Sisters of Providence (OSP) is a Catholic women's religious institute founded by Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, and Father James Nicholas Joubert in 1829 in Baltimore, Maryland for the education of girls of African descent.
Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP (born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange; c. 1789 – February 3, 1882) was an American religious sister in Baltimore, Maryland who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1829, the first African-American religious congregation in the United States.
She helped found both the Oblate Sisters of Providence—the first order of Black nuns in the US—and the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The latter, founded in Monroe, Michigan, was the first predominantly White order founded by an African American. Duchemin served as one of the earliest Black mother superiors in the nation.
In 1829, Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence — the country’s first African American religious congregation. The post Black nun who founded first African ...
Mother Mary Lange (1784-1882): Founder and first superior of the Oblate Sisters of Providence Henriette DeLille (1812-1862): Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family order in New Orleans in 1842
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (I.H.M.) is a Catholic religious institute of sisters, founded in 1845 by Fr. Louis Florent Gillet, CSsR, and Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, a co-founder of the Oblate Sister of Providence.
Oblate Sisters of Providence; Oblate Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus; Oblate Sisters of the Virgin Mary of Fatima; Oblates of Jesus the Priest; Oblates of St. Frances of Rome; Oblates of the Holy Spirit; Order of the Blessed Sacrament; Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary; Ordre de Notre-Dame du Refuge; Sisters of Our Lady of Fidelity
They eventually succeeded and became the Oblate Sisters of Providence. Joubert wrote the community's first rule, incorporating the Sulpician ideal of following the rule and giving good example. He persuaded Whitfield to approve the order. [6]