Missionaries of Africa in Great Britain (known as the White Fathers)

This is the United Kingdom Web Site of the Society of Missionaries of Africa.
We are Catholic priests and brothers
who live in communities to be at the service of the people of Africa.
Our membership hails from four continents (plus one Australian!), including an increasing proportion of Africans.

We are popularly known as "the White Fathers" because traditionally we wore distinctive white robes, as seen below in a 1929 photograph of Navrongo Church in Northern Ghana. The white robes reflected our origins in Algiers where Cardinal Lavigerie founded the Society in 1868.

The Pope's Prayer Intentions for February 2010:

For all scholars and intellectuals, that by sincere search for the truth they may arrive at an understanding of the one true God. Missionary Intention: That the Church, aware of its own missionary identity, may strive to follow Christ faithfully and to proclaim His Gospel to all peoples..

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