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Fr. Alain Mayama

Fr. Alain Mayama, Superior General of the Spiritans

On Founder’s Day, 321-year-old Order with Dominant African Membership Launches Phase II of “Animation Plan” for Mission

Oct 2, 2024

The leadership of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans/Holy Ghost Fathers/CSSp.), the 321-year-old Missionary Congregation with members in all continents, most them natives of Africa, has launched the second phase of the Congregation’s “animation plan”.

Participants in the Spiritan Chapter at Stella Maris Hotel, Bagamoyo in Tanzania's Morogoro Diocese 3-24 October 2021. Credit: Courtesy Photo

Pentecost: Spiritan Superior General Says “it’s harvest time”, Recalls “wonderful witnesses of our missionary history”

May 18, 2024

The mission of the Spiritan missionaries, who left their respective countries, pioneering the proclamation of the Gospel to the people of God in other territories of the world, including Africa and Asia “has borne fruit”, the Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans/Holy Ghost Fathers) has said. 

Some members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans). Credit: Spiritans Nigeria/@csspnigeria

Longing Fulfilled on Election of First African Superior General of 318-year-old Order

Oct 28, 2021

The election of Fr. Alain Mayama from Congo Brazzaville as the new Superior General for the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) not only testifies that Africa is becoming the axis of Catholicism. It also fulfils a deep desire that one of the Congregation’s founders harbored to have a black man become the first Superior General of the Missionary Religious Order.