Fr. Leocir Pessini, the Superior General, with the agreement of the members of the General Consulta, after consulting the religious of the Provinces and Vice-Provinces of the Order, on 10 April 2017, appointed, for the three-year period 2017-2020:

Fr. AYITE Guy- Gervais – Vice-Provincial Superior of the Vice-Province of Benin-Togo
Br.BERMEJO José Carlos– Delegate General for the Province of Spain
Fr.ELLICKAL Baby Scaria – Provincial Superior of the Province of India
Fr.ELOJA José Pacheco – Provincial Superior of the Province of the Philippines
Fr.FREITAS Antonio Mendes – Provincial Superior of the Province of Brazil
Fr.KABORE Gaétan – Provincial Superior of the Province of Burkina Faso
Fr.GYÖRGY Alfred – Delegate General for the Province of Austria
Fr. JÖRG Gabriel – Provincial Superior of the Province of Germany
Fr.MARZANO Antonio – Provincial Superior of the Province of Rome
Fr.MAURIELLO Rosario – Provincial Superior of the Province of Sicily and Naples
Fr.NESPOLI Bruno – Provincial Superior of the Province of North Italy
Fr.RIQUET Michel – Delegate General for the Province of France
Fr.SRIPRASERT Rocco Pairat – Provincial Superior of the Province of Thailand
Fr.ZWAJNOCH Mirosław – Provincial Superior of the Province of Poland

With all of them, together with our best wishes for their persons and their ministry, we also share the following invocation –  which is always very relevant to our consecrated lives – of Pope Francis: ‘May you always know how to exercise authority by accompanying, understanding, helping and loving; by embracing every man and every woman, especially people who feel alone, excluded, barren, on the existential margins of the human heart. Let us keep our gaze fixed on the Cross: there is found any authority in the Church, where the One who is the Lord becomes a servant to the point of the total gift of himself’ (Pope Francis to those taking part in the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superior Generals, Wednesday 8 May 2013).

This is a propitious opportunity to express at the end of this three-year period to all the Major Superiors who are ending their mandates, and to the members of their Councils, feelings of thankfulness and gratitude for the service of authority, guidance, discernment, animation, support and merciful patience that they have engaged in during these years. We thank them for the cooperation, friendship, welcome and fraternity that they have generously offered to the Order during this period.

Happy Easter of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus!