 |
|
|
|
|
|
1860 -19101860 -1910
 February 24, 1867James Anthony Walsh, Co-Founder of Maryknoll, born in Cambridge, MA October 27, 1882Mary Josephine Rogers, Foundress of the Maryknoll Sisters, born in Roxbury, MA  May 20, 1892Fr. Walsh ordained a priest in Boston, MA October 1, 1906The Catholic Foreign Mission Bureau formed in Boston  January 1, 1907First issue of The Field Afar published  September 1, 1910Eucharistic Congress, Montreal 1911-1911-
 June 29, 1911Propaganda Fide approves the establishment of the Foreign Mission Seminary in the US  December 04, 1911Society's first home, Hawthorne, NY  January 06, 1912Secretaries arrive at Hawthorne, NY later to become Maryknoll Sisters  April 27, 1912Foreign Mission Brothers of Saint Michael formed  September 15, 1912Mary Josephine Rogers named Directress of the Secretaries  October 15, 1912Secretaries move to St. Teresa's Lodge  September 08, 1913Maryknoll's first preparatory college, The Venard, opens in Scranton, PA  November 10, 1914First ordination of a Maryknoll student, Fr. Daniel McShane  September 13, 1917Maryknoll Procure opened in San Francisco  September 3, 1917Fr. James A. Walsh leaves to find a mission field in China  December 25, 1917Field Found  July 18, 1918First Teresians assigned to work at The Venard, Clarks Summit, PA  September 07, 1918Society's First Departure  September 12, 1919Fr. Thomas Frederick Price dies in Hong Kong 1920-1920-
 February 14, 1920Congregation's Canonical Foundation Day  April 8, 1920Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Los Angeles, CA  June 29, 1920Groundbreaking for new Seminary Building, Maryknoll, NY  September 10, 1921First Maryknoll Brother departs for China  September 21, 1921Congregation's first departure for China  November 3, 1921First Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Kowloon, Hong Kong  November 21, 1922Maryknoll Sisters enter South China  January 23, 1923Fr. Patrick Byrne leaves Maryknoll for Pyongyang, Korea Mission  November 01, 1923Mother Mary Joseph departs for China  1924Maryknoll participates in the Vatican Mission Exposition  January 31, 1924First preparatory seminary for Chinese students opens in Yeungkong, Kongmoon, China  January 31, 1924Maryknoll Sisters arrive at Pyongyang, Korea  October 1925Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Antung, Manchuria  November 21, 1925Maryknoll Sisters open Bethany Convent at Maryknoll, NY  1926Maryknollers found Sisters of the Immaculate Heart  1926Maryknollers begin mission work in Manila, Philippines  January 27, 1927Maryknoll Junior Seminary, Los Altos, CA, formally blessed  February 4, 1927Society begins parish and mission work in Hawaii  May 22, 1927Msgr. James E. Walsh consecrated Bishop at Sancian Island  September 04, 1927Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Honolulu, HI  June 29, 1929Cornerstone laid at Sisters' Motherhouse, Maryknoll, NY 1930-1930-
 1930Maryknollers establish Sister Catechists of Our Lady in the Kaying Diocese of China  1930Maryknoll's First lay missioner  June 04, 1930Maryknoll Sisters take over direction of a tuberculosis sanitarium, Monrovia, CA  1932Msgr. Bernard Meyer founds the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart, Wuchow, China  March 2, 1932Maryknoll Sisters move into their newly built Motherhouse, Maryknoll, NY  June 27, 1932Msgr. John Morris, with help from Maryknoll Sisters, founds the Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Korea  October 4, 1932Enclosure ceremony for the first cloistered branch of Maryknoll Sisters  June 29, 1933Very Rev. James A. Walsh consecrated Bishop in Rome  July 30, 1933First Society members assigned to Japan take part in Departure Ceremony  1934Maryknoll's First Long-Term lay missioner  September 21, 1935Msgr. Francis X. Ford consecrated Bishop at Maryknoll, NY  April 14, 1936Bishop James A. Walsh dies at Maryknoll  June 5, 1937First Maryknoll Sisters enter Otsu, Japan, for mission work  September 29, 1938Brothers of St. Michael Novitiate begins under the direction of Fr. Frederick Kiloran, MM  1939Maryknollers in Kweilin, China, found the Sister Catechists of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1940-1940-
 February 1, 1942Maryknoll Sisters and Priests interned by Japanese in Los Banos prison, Philipppines  April 5, 1942Special departure ceremony for first three Society members assigned to Bolivia  August 25, 1942Ninety-seven Maryknollers repatriated aboard the SS Gripsholm  March 1943Maryknoll Fathers begin mission work in Peru  April 1943Maryknoll Fathers begin mission work in Chile  September 1943Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Bolivia  September 1943Maryknoll Fathers begin mission work in Ecuador  November 1943Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Ancon, Panama, for mission work  July 25, 1944Maryknoll Sisters open a school in Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA  August 16, 1944Maryknoll Sisters staff St. Anthony School in Bronx, NY  December 24, 1944Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Siuna, Nicaragua to take up mission work  February 1945Maryknoll Sisters and Priests interned in Los Banos prison, Philippines, rescued by US Army  August 6, 1945Maryknoll Sisters staff Transfiguration Parish School in Chinatown, New York City  May 1, 1946First Maryknoll Fathers depart for Musoma, Tanganyika  October 30, 1947Maryknoll Sisters open their second Novitiate in Valley Park, MO  1948Bishop Alonso Escalante founds the Mexican Foreign Mission Society, better known as the Guadalupe Fathers  December 1, 1948Bishop James E. Walsh, MM, appointed Executive Secretary of the Catholic Central Bureau of China in Shanghai  December 27, 1948Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Kowak, Tanzania, to begin mission work  August 17, 1949Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Kandy, Ceylon, to work in a government hospital  November 1, 1949Maryknoll Sisters open a dispensary in Pusan, Korea 1950-1950-
 June 1950Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico  September 1, 1950Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Likiep, Marshall Islands, for mission work  October 4, 1950Sister Agneta Chang killed by Communists in Korea November 1, 1950All Maryknoll missions in China closed  November 25, 1950Archbishop Patrick J. Byrne dies on Korea Death March  1950Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Galvarino, Chile January 1, 1951Bishop Francis X. Ford and Sr. Joan Marie Ryan taken prisoner in China  February 21, 1952Bishop Francis X. Ford dies in a Canton prison after a year's incarceration  September 1952Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work among the Chinese in Chicago, IL  September 02, 1952Sr. Joan Marie Ryan released from prison and arrives in Hong Kong  December 8, 1952Bishop William Kupfer founds the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Taiwan  1953Msgr. Gerard Grondin and Sr. Mary Bowes found the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters of Africa in Musoma, Tanganyika  1953Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Guatemala  April 22, 1953Maryknoll Seminary Chapel cornerstone laid  May 21, 1953Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work on Yap Island in the Caroline Islands  May 26, 1953Maryknoll Sisters open their third Novitiate at Topsfield, MA  September 5, 1953Maryknoll Sisters begin catechetical work in Houston, Texas, among the Mexican population  November 1953Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Taiwan  December 12, 1954Maryknoll Sisters become a Pontifical Congregation  May 22, 1955Maryknoll Sisters staff Queen of the World Hospital in Kansas City, MO  October 9, 1955Mother Mary Joseph dies  November 9, 1955Remains of Maryknoll Founders, Fr. T.F. Price and Bishop J.A. Walsh, transferred to their place of honor in the crypt of the new Maryknoll Chapel  January 1, 1957"Maryknoll" becomes the title of the magazine on the occasion of the 50th anniversary issue  April 1958Bishop Donaghy founds the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Miaoli, Taiwan  February 10, 1959Maryknoll Sisters arrive in Majuro Island, Marshall Islands to open a grade and high school for Marshallese children 1960-1960-
 November 1960Maryknoll Society assigns its first members to Columbia  November 1, 1960Bishop James E. Walsh sentenced to 20 years in prison in Shanghai, China  November 1, 1960Maryknoll Sisters open their fourth novitiate in Quezon City, Philippines  May 2, 1962New Maryknoll Junior Seminary in Chesterfield, MO, dedicated  May 28, 1963Dedication of new chapel wing at Maryknoll College, Glen Ellyn, IL  June 1963Maryknoll Sisters withdraw from the kitchens at Maryknoll, NY, after 51 years of dedicated service  June 1964Maryknoll's Hingham, MA, Novitiate opened September 3, 1964Maryknoll Sisters begin using M.M. instead of O.P. after their names  March 1, 1965Lima Methods Conference II begins  August 1965Maryknoll Society begins mission in Venezuela December 1, 1966Commission on the Brothers holds its first meeting  September 4, 1967Fr. Vincent R. Capodanno, US Navy Chaplain, killed in action in Vietnam  August 19, 1968Rogers Building at the Maryknoll Sisters Center formally opened  1969Maryknoll Sisters begin missionary work in El Salvador  August 1, 1969Bishop James Pardy resigns as Bishop of Cheong Ju, Korea in order to install a native Korean Bishop 1970-1970-
1970Maryknoll Sisters vote for laity in mission February 7, 1970Jesuit Fathers award the Annual Xavier Mission Award to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers  July 20, 1970Bishop James E. Walsh released after 12 years in Chinese prison  September 1971Maryknoll Cloistered Sisters open a Cloister in Gallup, New Mexico 1972Experimental Lay Missioner Program authorized  October 1972Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Bandung, Indonesia  1974Five lay missioners sent to mission  1975Maryknoll Brothers begin mission work in Western Samoa  1975Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Sudan  1975Maryknoll Society opens a new mission unit in Bangladesh  1975Maryknoll Society begins mission work in Sudan January 2, 1975Lay missioner advisory board created  March 1975Maryknoll Sisters enter Quito, Ecuador to establish mission work June 1, 1975Lay Mission Office begins to function independently June 9, 1975First orientation program for Maryknoll lay missioners held  February 1976Lay Missioners assigned to Africa  May 22, 1976First Lay Missioners sent with Society members at the annual Society Departure Ceremony  1977Maryknoll Society begins mission work in Nepal  1978Maryknoll Society begins mission work in Yemen  1978Maryknoll Society begins mission work in Zambia September 01, 1978Lay missioners participate in Society Chapter and Congregation Assembly November 17, 1978Maryknoll Sisters receive Xavier Award from the Jesuit Fathers  October 1979Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Dakha, Bangladesh December 01, 1979Lay missioners become program coordinators 1980-1980-
 September 1, 1980First issue of Revista Maryknoll published  December 2, 1980Two Maryknoll Sisters are among the 4 Churchwomen murdered in El Salvador 1981Lay missioner assigned to Society's U.S. operations  1981Maryknoll Priest Fr. Frank Higdon helps found the Bolivian Association of the Faithful  1982Fr. Tom Garrity and Sr. Margaret Hennessey establish the Peruvian Lay Missionary Group  July 1982Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Port Elizabeth, South Africa  August 1, 1982Maryknoll Brothers open a new house in Bronx, NY  October 27, 1982100th Anniversary of Mother Mary Joseph Rogers' birth  1983Fr. Jack Cuff is the first Maryknoll missioner to return to China since expulsion 1984Lay mission program becomes Associate Program of Fathers and Brothers December 15, 1984Largest lay missioner class sent  1986Maryknoll celebrates 75th Anniversary Year  August 21, 1986Maryknoll Sisters open a cloister in El Quiche, Guatemala  March 10, 1987Maryknoll Sisters open a Cloister in Juba, Sudan  April 1987Maryknoll Sisters enter Somalia and begin work among refugees June 19, 1987First joint Mission Sending Ceremony  June 19, 1987First Maryknoll Joint Mission Sending Ceremony  September 1989Maryknoll Society begins mission work in Cambodia  October 17, 1989Earthquake strikes Maryknoll residence in Los Altos, CA, causing major damage  1989Maryknoll opens Casa Maryknoll in San Jose, CA, a new education program for Hispanic college students 1990-1990-
1990The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers 9th General Chapter approves a motion to establish the Maryknoll Affiliates program  1991Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in East Timor  June 1991Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in American Samoa  1992Maryknoll Society and Congregation jointly celebrate 50 years of mission work in Bolivia  1992Sister Mary Annel, MM, founds the Maryknoll AIDS Task Force June 1992Research conducted to establish an independent lay association  July 31, 1992Maryknoll Society celebrates 50 years in Diocese of Buffalo  September 1992Maryknoll Sisters end their mission work in Boston's Chinatown after 46 years of service  1993Maryknoll opens mission in Argentina  1993Maryknoll Society begins mission work in Vietnam June 1993Cardinal O'Connor of New York provides "Letter of Praise" August 1994Maryknoll Lay Missioners's leadership team is elected  August 15, 1994Lay mission program officially founded as Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful September 1994Maryknoll Lay Missioners seeks canonical recognition September 1994Maryknoll Lay Missioners's membership soars  1995Maryknoll Sisters end their mission work in Papua New Guinea  1995Maryknoll Sisters begin mission work in Albania  1995Maryknoll Lay Missioners becomes independent NY organization  1996Maryknoll Cambodia's Seedling of Hope HIV/AIDS Program begins  1997Maryknoll Lay Missioners formally separates from Fathers and Brothers' Financial and Fundraising Operations  1997Maryknoll Society begins mission work in Russia 1997Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns founded as a collaborative project of the Society, Congregation and Association  1997Maryknoll Society opens a new mission in Mozambique  June 1997During their 50th anniversary celebration in Hawaii, Catholic Charities honors the Maryknoll Sisters as pioneers of Catholic Social Services  1999Maryknoll Sisters Center for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation opens in Baguio City, Philippines 2000-2000-
 2000Maryknoll Hospital in Pusan, South Korea, celebrates its 50th anniversary.  200050th anniversary of Maryknoll Sisters mission work in the Marshall Islands  2000Maryknoll Lay Missioner Fr. Charles Dittmeier helps set up the Deaf Development Program in Cambodia September 11, 2001Maryknoll Missioners respond to victims of the World Trade Center attack  2003Maryknoll Sisters celebrate 50 years in Guatemala  2003Bugando University College of Health and Sciences opens in Mwanza, Tanzania  2003Fr. Rick Bauer appointed director of Catholic AIDS Action in Namibia  2004Maryknoll Society provides aid to tsunami victims in Thailand 2004Maryknoll Lay Missioners (MKLM) officially adopted as popular name  2006Maryknoll collaborative team begins work in Myanmar October 2006MKLM establishes Board of Directors  2007Maryknoll Society and the San Jose Diocese begin cooperative mission work in Jamaica  August 2010MKLM celebrates 35th Anniversary! September 2010MKLM missioner Dr. Nagele commended by President Obama 2011-2011-
|
(click to view) |
| ©2011 | Affiliates | Contact Us | Terms | Privacy | Opentracker |
