Welcome to www.thewhitefathers.org.uk

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 ever-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. The white robes reflected our origins in Algiers where Cardinal Lavigerie founded the Society in 1868.


The Pope's Missionary Intention for July 2008 “May World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, fill young people with the fire of God's love that they may sow seeds of hope for a new humanity"

If you would like to receive a copy of 'White Fathers - White Sisters' magazine,
please email or write to the Editor at the address below
(giving us your full postal address), or click here for an on-line form.
The subscription is free.

This Web Site is maintained by our community at:
The White Fathers, 129 Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield,
West Midlands, England, B74 2SA.

The Missionaries of Africa (also known as the 'White Fathers') are Registered Charity No. 233302 in England and Wales and a Charity Registered in Scotland No.SC037981.



An adobe brick and whitewashed church in Navrongo in Northern Ghana
 

Above: The cover of our latest magazine, already received by our subscribers, shows a venerable old church in Navrongo, an area of Northern Ghana first evangelized by members of the White Fathers, as seen in the 1929 photograph on the right.

The Novena is now over until new time!
 

  
         
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