The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (O.F.M.Conv.) is a male religious fraternity in the Catholic Church and a branch of the Franciscan Order. Conventual Franciscan Friars are identified by the affix O.F.M.Conv. after their names. They are also known as Conventual Franciscans or Minorites.
The Diocese of Lexington is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, in southeastern Kentucky in the United States. It was erected on January 14, 1988. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville. The Diocese of Lexington provides education for approximately 4,300 students in its 15 elementary schools and two high schools located throughout the diocese, and maintains Newman Centers at eight of Kentucky's colleges and universities.
William Patrick Callahan is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse in Wisconsin since 2010.
Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish, which was designated for Polish immigrants at Dorchester Ave Dorchester, Massachusetts, was founded in 1893.
Vincent Nguyễn Văn Long O.F.M. Conv. is a Vietnamese Australian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was appointed the fourth Bishop of Parramatta, Australia, by Pope Francis on 5 May 2016. He has been a bishop since 2011 after serving for several years in the leadership of the Franciscans, first in Australia and later in Rome. He is Australia's first Asian-born bishop and the first Vietnamese-born bishop to head a diocese outside of Vietnam.
Gregory John Hartmayer, O.F.M. Conv. is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A Conventual Friar Minor, he serves as the Archbishop of Atlanta in Georgia, having returned to the archdiocese where he worked from 1995 to 2011. From 2011 to 2020, Hartmayer served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Savannah in Georgia.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bacău was a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite in Moldavia.
Giuseppe Maria Bottari, O.F.M. Conv. (1646–1729) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pula (1695–1729).
St Anthony of Padua Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Rye, East Sussex, England. It was constructed from 1927 to 1929 and replaced a church built in 1900. It is situated on Watchbell Street to the south of Lamb House. It is served by the Conventual Franciscans and is a Grade II listed building.
Enrico Cini, O.F.M. Conv. or Enrico Siculus was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Alife (1586–1598).
Maurizio Centini, O.F.M. Conv. was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Mileto (1631–1639) and Bishop of Massa Lubrense (1626–1631).
The Order of Friars Minor is a mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. The order adheres to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary, among many others. The Order of Friars Minor is the largest of the contemporary First Orders within the Franciscan movement.
Francesco Antonio Biondo, O.F.M. Conv. was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli (1640–1643) and Bishop of Capri (1637–1640).
Gerolamo Cappello, O.F.M. Conv. was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Termoli (1626–1643).
Costanzo de Sarnano, O.F.M. Conv. or Gasparo Torri (1531–1595) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.
Elias James Manning OFM Conv. was an American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Valença, Brazil, from 1990 to 2014.
Our Lady of Częstochowa-St Casimir Parish is a church in New York City at 24th Street in Brooklyn. The church, which was designated for Polish immigrants, was founded in 1896. It could also be spelled Częnstochowa, due to the tail on the third letter. The original church building was a wood-frame structure, which was destroyed by a fire in 1904. The replacement was a Gothic Revival Style with a tower and steeple rising to 175 feet that was built on the site of the original church.
Bishop Jerzy Maculewicz, O.F.M.Conv. is a Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the first Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan and Titular Bishop of Nara since 1 April 2005.
Martinho (Martin) Maria de Porres Ward, O.F.M. Conv. was an African-American Catholic priest and Franciscan friar who served as a missionary in Brazil for more than forty years. He was the first African American to join the Conventual Friars Minor in the United States and has been proposed as a candidate for canonization by the Diocese of São João del Rei. In recognition of this, he now has the title Servant of God.
St. Nicholas Catholic Church was an historic church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, located in Frenchtown, Ohio. The parish was founded in 1856, with the authorization of Bishop Amadeus Rappe of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, to serve French-speaking Catholics who had immigrated to Northwest Ohio from Belgium and Luxembourg. The final Romanesque revival church was completed in 1890. After 1910, the church was under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo. The church was most well-known as the "mother church" of the Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, Ohio, and for over a half century it was administered by the Conventual Franciscan friars there.
