Congregación de la Inmaculada Concepción

Existen varias órdenes o congregaciones religiosas católicas que incluyen la Inmaculada Concepción en su nombre. Algunas de ellas se mencionan aquí.

Las Hermanas Misioneras de la Inmaculada Concepción de la Madre de Dios (abreviadas SMIC) son un instituto de religiosas de la Iglesia Católica Romana . La congregación pertenece a la Tercera Orden Regular de San Francisco . Fueron fundadas en 1910 en Santarém , Brasil, por Armand August Bahlmann, OFM , y la Madre Immaculata (nacida Elizabeth Tombrock), ambos originarios de Alemania, con el propósito de educar a los niños pobres de todo el mundo.

La Orden de la Inmaculada Concepción de Nuestra Señora, también conocida como las "Concepcionistas", fue fundada en 1484 en Toledo , España , por Beatriz de Silva , hermana del beato Amadeo de Portugal . La fundadora determinó el hábito, que era blanco, con un escapulario blanco y un manto azul. ^{[ 1 ]}

La Congregación de los Sacerdotes Misioneros de la Inmaculada Concepción, también conocida como los Misioneros de Rennes, fue fundada en Saint-Méen, en la diócesis de Rennes , por Jean-Marie-Robert de Lamennais , para el cuidado del seminario diocesano y la realización de misiones. Posteriormente se unió a la Sociedad de San Pedro, establecida por su hermano menor, Félicité de Lamennais , en 1829 en La Chênaie, formando la Congregación de San Pedro. ^{[ 1 ]}

The Servites of the Immaculate Conception were founded at Constantinople in 1864 by Peter Kharischirashvili, a GeorgianHieromonk formerly of the Mekhitarist Congregation in San Lazzaro Island, to minister to the spiritual wants of the Georgian people. The congregation was confirmed by Pius IX, 29 May 1875. Approval was given for the use of three rites, Roman Rite, Armenian Rite, and the Byzantine Rite in the traditional Old Georgianliturgical language. The first two were for use among the Georgians in their native country, the last to keep up the Greek-Georgian Rite in the monastery at Constantinople, which was the mother-house of the congregation.^[1]

The priests of the Immaculate Conception got charge of three congregations at Constantinople, one at Feri-kuei, for Georgians and Armenians, another for the Latins at Scutari, and a third for Georgian Greek Catholics at Pera.^[1]

Candidates for the priesthood were ordained in Saratov by the Bishop of Tiraspol, who was the ecclesiastical superior of the Catholic Church in Georgia; for a time they filled parish duties as secular priests, after which they were appointed by the congregation to a post where they might minister to their countrymen.^[1]

The Sister Servites of the Immaculate Conception conducted two primary schools, to which children are admitted, without distinction of creed.^[1]

According to Father Christopher Zugger, nine Servite missionaries from Constantinople, headed by ExarchShio Batmanishvili, came to the Democratic Republic of Georgia to permanently establish the Byzantine Rite in Old Georgian there, and by 1929 their faithful had grown to 8,000.^[2] Tragically, their mission came to an end with the arrests of Exarch Shio and his priests by the Soviet secret police in 1928, their imprisonment in the Gulag at Solovki prison camp, and their subsequent murder by Joseph Stalin's NKVD at Sandarmokh^[3] in 1937.^[4]

The Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception are members of a religious congregation of women dedicated to serve in the nations of the world most in need. Founded in 1902 by Délia Tétreault (1865-1941) in Canada, they were the first such institute established in North America. Members of the congregation use the postnominal initials of M.I.C.

Founded at Jodoigne, in 1833, definitively established at Champion near Namur (also in Belgium) in 1836, by Canon Jean-Baptiste-Victor Kinet, for the instruction of children, the care of orphan asylums and the service of the sick and prisoners.^[1]

In 1858 the congregation received the approbation of the Apostolic See, and shortly afterwards the confirmation of its statutes. By 1876 there were 150 convents in Belgium, England, Italy and the United States. The mother-house is at Champion.^[1]

A branch of the Association of the Holy Family of Bordeaux, founded in France in 1820 by Pierre-Bienvenu Noailles, a canon of that city, who conceived the idea of founding a congregation to allow the expression of the Christian life in various forms. In 1820 he placed the first three members of the Holy Family in a house at Bordeaux, under the name of the Ladies of Loreto. As the numbers increased the sisters were divided by their founder into two categories: (1) Those engaged directly in the various works undertaken by the Institute; (2) Lay sisters who perform household duties, and are called the Sisters of St. Martha. These are sub-divided into three branches: (a) The Sisters of St. Joseph who undertake the charge of orphans; (b) The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, who devote themselves to educational work; (c) The Sisters of Hope, who nurse the sick. The Institute encountered much opposition at first, but the constitutions have now been canonically approved by the Holy See. The works of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception are numerous; they devote themselves to educational work and visiting the poor.

A principios del siglo XX, contaban con 15 conventos en Gran Bretaña e Irlanda , a los que estaban adscritas escuelas primarias, además de cinco internados. Unas 230 monjas impartían clases en estos conventos. El noviciado inglés se encontraba en Rock Ferry , Cheshire , y los demás conventos ingleses estaban en Great Prescot Street, Londres , E.; Leeds ; Sicklinghall , Yorkshire ; Stockport ; Macclesfield ; Stalybridge ; Woodford , Essex ; Ramsgate ; Liscard , Cheshire ; Birkenhead ; también en Wrexham , Gales; y en Leith , Escocia. El convento de Leeds contaba con un juniorado para la formación de vocaciones.

El hábito que se usa únicamente en Inglaterra es azul con un cinturón blanco y un velo negro .

Veinte años después de la Constitución Apostólica Ineffabilis Deus del Papa Pío IX , se fundó la segunda congregación religiosa femenina autóctona de la Arquidiócesis de Nueva Orleans: las Hermanas de la Inmaculada Concepción . Fueron fundadas en Labadieville , Luisiana , por el reverendo Cyprien Venissat, de origen francés, y la señorita Adelaide Elvina Vienne. Esta última, antigua maestra, tomó los hábitos (como Madre María de la Inmaculada Concepción, CIC) de manos de Monseñor Napoléon-Joseph Perché el 11 de julio de 1874. La Madre María falleció en 1885, a los 48 años.

Su hábito consistía en una túnica negra y un escapulario azul en honor a la Virgen María.

La Comunidad era una orden religiosa dedicada a la enseñanza entre los jóvenes del estado de Luisiana. Sin embargo, tras el Concilio Vaticano II , el número de miembros de la orden disminuyó (al igual que en muchas otras comunidades) y el 14 de julio de 2026, la última miembro viva, la hermana Jerónimo, falleció a la edad de noventa y un años.

En la película de 2007, La iglesia de la calle Dauphine (de Ann Hedreen y Rustin Thompson), se muestra su antigua casa matriz, el Convento de la Inmaculada Concepción. Construido en 1932, ahora alberga el Centro San Gerardo Majella y el Ministerio Arquidiocesano para Sordos. La película narra su restauración tras el catastrófico huracán Katrina .

The order "Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Mary" (RCM, Concepcionistas Misioneras de la Enseñanza) was founded in 1892 in Burgos, Spain by sister St. Carmen Sallés y Barangueras along with three other sisters. The sisters opened schools in several parts of Spain. Later sites in Brazil and in other countries in the world were established. The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception founded by Carmen Sallés work in the following countries: Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, Japan, United States (California), Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Philippines, Korea, Mexico, India, Republic of Congo, Indonesia and Haiti.

• Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, founded in Lithuania, convent in Connecticut
• Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
• Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, the Servers' Guild of the Manila Cathedral
• Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception

•  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Congregation of the Immaculate Conception". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Bibliography to the Louisiana Order

• The Catholic Church in Louisiana, by Roger Baudier, New Orleans, 1939.
• Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States, edited by Thomas P. McCarthy, CSV, The Catholic University of America Press, 1964. ISBN 0-8132-1312-6
• Spicing Ecclesiastical Gumbo: The Life of Napoléon-Joseph Perché, by William Lemuel Greene, Claitor's Publishing Division, 2012. ISBN 1-59804-636-5
• Iglesia del Beato Francisco Seelos Xavier Seelos: Celebración de los 150 años de la antigua iglesia de San Vicente de Paúl , por el Muy Reverendo José I. Lavastida Mata, Parroquia del Beato Francisco Xavier Seelos , 2015.

• Sitio de la Delegación de RCM en Norteamérica
• Hermanas de la Inmaculada Concepción
• Concepcionistas Misioneras de la Enseñanza