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2019 Oblate Statistics

General Secretariat

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Editor’s Note: Each year the Oblate General Administration in Rome publishes its latest statistics of how many Oblates there are in the world and where they are working. At the end of the summary just below, you can see that as of January 2019, there are a total of 3, 658 Oblates currently, down 8 from 3,666 in January one year ago. Below the summary is the number of Oblates attached to the general administration in Rome, followed by graphics containing the number of Oblates working in the countries of the world’s different regions. It should be noted that those graphics do not provide a total number of countries in which Oblates are working.  As you will see below, some of the numbers reported are assigned to areas rather than individual countries, such as “Anglo-Irish,” “Southern Africa,” “Mediterranean, ” etc, these areas include several countries where Oblates work which are not listed individually.

Introduction: The source for Oblate statistics is the database of members in the General Secretariat at the General House, updated and adjusted with reports which come in from the various Oblate provinces, delegations and missions. The records of first vows, final vows, ordinations, departures and deaths which are received daily in Rome go to make up the annual report.

For various reasons, these records sometimes do not arrive at the Secretariat in a timely fashion. The numbers included in this publication, especially related to scholastics, vows, ordinations and departures, reflect not only the statistics of the year that has just passed, but also of some previous years.

 SUMMARY (as of January 2019)

MISSIONARY OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE

JANUARY 2018

JANUARY 2019

Cardinals 2 2
Archbishops 8 8
Bishops 35 35
Prefect Apostolic 1 1
Priests 2766 2720
Brothers with perpetual vows 271 265
Brothers who are permanent deacons 7 7
Brothers with temporary vows 14 20
Scholastics 562 601
Total number of Oblates 3666 3658


PERSONNEL BY UNIT
(As of 24 January 2019)

The next table shows the number of Oblates according to the Unit to which they belong. For example, all the Oblates attached to the Zambia Delegation are listed there, even though they are juridically members of the United States Province, or may be temporarily living elsewhere. Some of the Zambian scholastics are in Cedara, others in the U.S. etc.

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

FR. FR.T BR. BR.T SC. DEA. PR.AP. EP. AREP. CARD. TOT.
General Administration 36 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38


AFRICA – MADAGSCAR

FR. FR.T BR. BR.T SC. DEA. PR.AP. EP. AREP. CARD. TOT.
Angola 14 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 16
Botswana 9 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 11
Cameroun 63 0 11 2 43 0 0 2 0 0 121
Congo 98 0 12 0 34 0 0 1 0 0 145
Kenya 10 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 16
Lesotho 76 0 9 0 20 0 0 2 2 1 110
Madagascar 42 0 4 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 78
Namibia 31 0 1 0 10 0 0 2 1 0 45
Nigeria 17 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 52
Sahara 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
Senegal 40 0 2 1 18 0 0 0 0 0 61
Southern Africa 103 0 3 0 24 0 0 2 2 0 134
Zambia 40 0 3 1 15 0 0 2 0 0 61
Zimbabwe 10 0 3 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 24
Total 555 0 49 4 251 0 1 11 5 1 877


LATIN AMERICA

PP. P.T H. H.T ESC. DIA. PR.AP. OB. AROB. CARD. TOT.
Baja California 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Bolivia 15 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 22
Brasil 56 0 2 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 65
Colombia 13 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 16
Cruz del Sur 60 0 4 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 71
Cuba 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
French Guyana 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
Guatemala 15 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 21
Haiti 87 0 8 0 25 0 0 1 0 0 121
Mexico 32 0 2 1 12 0 0 0 0 0 47
Peru 13 0 2 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 20
Puerto Rico 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Venezuela 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 10
Total 323 0 25 2 62 0 0 6 0 0 418

 

ASIA – OCEANIA

FR. FR.T BR. BR.T SC. DEA. PR.AP. EP. AREP. CARD. TOT.
Australia 36 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 39
Bangladesh 26 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 0 0 36
China 15 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 19
Colombo 104 0 5 0 28 2 0 1 0 0 140
India 92 0 1 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 143
Indonesia 31 0 0 6 15 0 0 0 0 0 52
Jaffna 89 0 2 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 120
Japan – Korea 16 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17
Korea 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8
Pakistan 30 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 0 0 43
Philippines 75 0 9 0 15 0 0 1 0 1 101
Thailand 19 0 1 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 27
Turkmenistan 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Vietnam 24 0 4 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 85
Total 565 0 23 7 228 2 0 6 0 1 832


CANADA – UNITED STATES

FR. FR.T BR. BR.T SC. DEA. PR.AP. EP. AREP. CARD. TOT.
Assumption 48 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 52
Lacombe 125 0 22 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 154
N.D.-du-Cap 109 0 34 0 1 2 0 4 0 0 150
United States 213 0 15 0 7 0 0 1 1 0 237
Total 495 0 74 0 9 2 0 10 3 0 593


EUROPE

FR. FR.T BR. BR.T SC. DEA. PR.AP. EP. AREP. CARD. TOT.
Anglo-Irish 67 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 71
Belg./Holland 48 0 11 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 61
Byelorussia 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Central European 86 0 22 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 114
France 98 0 13 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 114
France/ Benelux 29 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 30
Mediterranean 147 0 8 1 5 1 0 1 0 0 163
Poland 235 0 31 5 36 0 0 0 0 0 307
Romania 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Ukraine 28 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 34
Total 744 0 92 7 51 3 0 3 0 0 900

 

Total 2718 0 265 20 601 7 1 36 8 2 3658

Legenda: Fr.=Father; Fr.T.=Father without Oblate No.; Br.=Brother; Br.T.=Brother with temp. vows; Sc.=Scholastics; Dea.=Perm. Deacon; Pr.Ap.=Prefect Apostolic; Ep.=Bishop; ArEp.=Archbishop; Card.=Cardinal.

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