The Congregation of the Mission is a Roman Catholic society of apostolic life founded by Vincent de Paul. It is associated with the Vincentian Family, a loose federation of organizations which claims Vincent de Paul as their founder or Patron. They are popularly known as Vincentians, Paules, Lazarites, Lazarists, or Lazarians.
Joseph Rosati was an Italian-born Catholic missionary to the United States who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Saint Louis between 1826 and 1843. A member of the Congregation of the Mission, in 1820 he was appointed Provincial Superior over all the Vincentians in the United States.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California is a diocese, or ecclesiastical territory, of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States, named in honor of St. Rose of Lima. It comprises the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma. Also known as the See of Santa Rosa in California, it is led by a bishop, currently Bishop Robert Francis Vasa, who pastors the mother church in the City of Santa Rosa, the Cathedral of Saint Eugene.
Claude Marie Dubuis was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Dubuis learned English, Alsatian, and Spanish in order to tend his diverse flock. He served as the second Bishop of Galveston from 1862 to 1892. Unable to obtain women religious from American communities to care for the many sick and orphaned, he founded the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.
Leo-Raymond de Neckère, C.M., was a Belgian-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of New Orleans from 1830 until his death in 1833.
The St. Joseph - Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located in Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York.
The Old Church of St. Rose of Lima is a former Roman Catholic parish church which was under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 36 Cannon Street between Broome Street and Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The rectory was located at 42 Cannon Street; the school was located at 290 Delancey Street. The 1871 church was described by The New York Times when it opened in 1871, as one of the finest churches in the city. The church was demolished around July 1901 and the site redeveloped in conjunction with the erection of the Williamsburg Bridge (1903) and public housing. A new church was begun shortly after property was purchased in July 1900 at Grand and Lewis Streets. The parish closed in the 1960s.
St. Vincent's Seminary and College was an educational facility in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, which had two components: a college, providing a secular education of young men of the region; and a seminary, for the training of candidates for the Catholic priesthood to serve in the Midwestern United States. The school was operated by the priests of the Congregation of the Mission, commonly referred to as the Vincentian Fathers, as a part of their mission since their founding in 17th-century France by St. Vincent de Paul. It operated from 1838 to 1979.
Silver Lake is an unincorporated settlement in Saint Mary's Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States.
St. Joseph Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Apple Creek, Missouri, in the Deanery of Ste. Genevieve of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
St. Maurus Church is parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Biehle, Missouri, USA, within the deanery of Ste. Genevieve of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
St. Vincent de Paul Church is a Roman Catholic church in Perryville, Missouri. It was completed in 1965, but has roots in a Catholic community that built its first church in Perryville in 1817.
St. Boniface Parish Church and Parish was a Roman Catholic church in Perryville, Missouri.
St. Mary's of the Barrens Church is a Roman Catholic Church and former Seminary in Perryville, Missouri. St. Mary's is the historic seat of the American Vincentians and since its establishment in 1818 has served as an educational institution, a Vincentian house of formation, and a Vincentian community residence. The complex of eight contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as St. Mary's of the Barrens Historic District.
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church was a Roman Catholic church in Belgique, Missouri.
St. James Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Crosstown, Missouri. It is operated as a mission church of the parish of St. Vincent de Paul in Perryville. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ste. Genevieve Deanery of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Andrew Eugene Bellisario is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau in Alaska since 2020.
Francesco (Francis) Cellini was a member of the Vincentian Order of priests connected to mission work serving the mid-western section of the United States during the mid 1800s. Cellini was born in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche Region, Italy. By 1818 he was the chaplain of the Hospital Santo Spirito in Rome in the Rione neighborhood near Vatican City. That same year he was accorded the habit of the Vincentian Order. After serving in Louisiana, Missouri, and Illinois, Cellini's ministerial work concluded with a posting in St. Louis, where he was made Vicar General of the St. Louis Diocese.
