Congregation of the Passion

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Bishop(s)

General Information Type of Jurisdiction: Institute of Consecrated Life Founded: 1720 Clerical Religious Congregation Mailing Address: Piazza SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 13, 00184 Roma, Italia Telephone: 06.77.27.11 Fax: 06.700.84.54

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Past and Present Ordinaries

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Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
1720	Founded		Congregation of the Passion
1741	Approbation		Congregation of the Passion

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Statistics

Year	Religious Priests	Male Religious	Parishes	Source
1959		3,870		ap1960
1990	2,028	2,713		ap1991
2000	1,793	2,391		ap2001
2001	1,786	2,356		ap2002
2002	1,783	2,351	391	ap2003
2004	1,755	2,329	383	ap2005

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

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Affiliated Bishops, Living

• José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, C.P. (Priest: 1 Feb 1964 to 26 Nov 1991)
• Tommaso Cascianelli, C.P. (Priest: 7 Apr 1973 to 5 Jul 2000)
• Washington Cruz, C.P. (Priest: 25 Jul 1971 to 10 Feb 1987)
• Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P. (Member: 15 Aug 1949; Priest: 28 Apr 1956 to 10 Jan 1986)
• Afonso Fioreze, C.P. (Member: 3 Feb 1964; Priest: 26 Jul 1970 to 5 Nov 2003)
• Miguel Irizar Campos, C.P. (Priest: 16 Mar 1957 to 25 Mar 1972)
• William Kenney, C.P. (Priest: 29 Jun 1969 to 13 May 1987)
• Jesús Agustín López de Lama, C.P. (Priest: 14 Mar 1954 to 10 Jun 1966)
• Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P. (Priest: 27 Mar 1956 to 14 Dec 1991)
• Giulio Mencuccini, C.P. (Member: 5 Sep 1964; Priest: 6 Aug 1973 to 22 Jan 1990)
• Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, C.P. (Priest: 30 Aug 1959 to 23 Jul 1993)
• Venancio Celestino Orbe Uriarte, C.P. (Priest: 7 Aug 1949 to 25 Aug 1967)

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Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

• Ippolito Agosto, C.P. †
• Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P. † (Priest: 28 Apr 1934 to 18 Nov 1969)
• Stanislao Amilcare Battistelli, C.P. †
• Leonardo Baumbach, C.P. †
• Bl. Vincentius Eugenio Bossilkoff, C.P. † (Priest: 25 Jul 1926 to 26 Jul 1947)
• Paul Michael Boyle, C.P. † (Member: 9 Jul 1946; Priest: 30 May 1953 to 15 Apr 1991)
• Michele Cardella, C.P. †
• Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández, C.P. † (Priest: 21 Sep 1929 to 7 Mar 1953)
• Alberto Deane, C.P. † (Priest: 28 Apr 1933 to 13 Mar 1957)
• Stanislao dell'Addolorata, C.P. †
• Michael Di Simone, C.P. †
• Henri Doulcet, C.P. †
• Martin Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, C.P. † (Priest: 13 Jul 1924 to 15 Jan 1949)
• Fortunato Maria Ercolani, C.P. †
• John Etheridge, C.P. † (Priest: 13 Jan 1971 to 24 Apr 1980)
• Eugenio Raffaele Faggiano, C.P. † (Priest: 31 May 1903 to 19 Feb 1936)
• Francesco Maria Ferreri, C.P. †
• Joseph Augustin Hagendorens, C.P. † (Priest: 2 Jan 1921 to 23 Mar 1947)
• Carlos Francisco Hanlon, C.P. † (Priest: 20 Sep 1913 to 13 Sep 1934)
• José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P. † (Member: 26 May 1946; Priest: 29 Mar 1952 to 30 May 1998)
• Atanasio Celestino Jáuregui y Goiri, C.P. † (Priest: 6 Apr 1901 to 3 Jun 1936)
• Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (Priest: 22 Dec 1906 to 23 Mar 1931)
• Domenico Langenbacher, C.P. †
• Eduardo Pedro Martínez y Dalmau, C.P. † (Priest: 1 Nov 1915 to 16 Nov 1935)
• Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P. † (Priest: 23 Sep 1939 to 9 Nov 1960)
• Pietro Paolo Camillo Moreschini, C.P. †
• Urban Charles Joseph Murphy, C.P. † (Priest: 25 May 1945 to 24 Apr 1959)
• Paul Joseph Nussbaum, C.P. † (Priest: 20 May 1894 to 4 Apr 1913)
• Cutbert Martin O'Gara, C.P. † (Priest: 26 May 1915 to 28 May 1934)
• Gregorio Elias Olazar Muruaga, C.P. † (Priest: 15 Sep 1935 to 11 Dec 1952)
• Quintino Carlo Bertamo Olwell, C.P. † (Priest: 4 Feb 1923 to 19 Jan 1961)
• Ignazio Paoli, C.P. †
• José Mauro Pereira Bastos, C.P. † (Member: 1981; Priest: 7 Jul 1984 to 5 Jul 2000)
• Giovanni Battista Peruzzo, C.P. † (Priest: 13 Jan 1901 to 18 Jan 1924)
• Anthony Jeremiah Pesce, C.P. † (Priest: 24 Sep 1932 to 10 May 1951)
• Gabriel W. Sillekens, C.P. † (Priest: 10 May 1936 to 2 Apr 1962)
• Domenico Luca Spinosi, C.P. †
• St. Vincenzo Maria Strambi, C.P. † (Priest: 19 Dec 1767 to 20 Jul 1801)
• Paschal Sweeney, C.P. † (Priest: 11 Jul 1935 to 20 Sep 1963)
• Damian Johannes Theelen, C.P. † (Priest: 23 Sep 1899 to 21 May 1915)
• Estanislau Arnoldo Van Melis, C.P. † (Priest: 10 May 1936 to 26 Nov 1962)