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Religious Orders for Men

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This is not a definitive list, but orders that have or had a presence in NEPA. While nuns, sisters, and brothers belong to religious orders, priests can either belong to an order or make their vows to the Bishop of a particular diocese. The latter are called diocesan or secular priests and do not have have specific identifying letters after their names. The majority of NEPA priests are diocesan.

• CM - Vincentian Fathers - :
  St Joseph Hospital, Hazleton²²
• CP - Congregation of the Passion (Passionists) - www.thepassionists.org:
  Founded by Paul Francis Daneo, St Paul of the Cross, in Italy;¹ came to diocese in 1901;² founded St Ann's Monastery parish, Scranton, in 1902³
• CSC - Congregation of the Holy Cross - www.holycrossCSC.org:
  Founded in France by Father Jacques Dujarie after the French Revolution;⁴ came to St Joseph's College, Susquehanna, in 1852, withdrew in 1858, came to Wilkes-Barre in 1946⁵ (King's College, Wilkes-Barre)
• CSS - Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (Stigmatines) - www.stigmatines.com:
  Founded by Saint Gaspar Bertoni in Verona in 1816;⁶ came to Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Hazleton, their first US parish, c 1907^7,8
• CSSp - Holy Ghost Fathers and Brothers (Spiritans) - www.spiritans.org:
  Founded by Claude Francis Poullart des Places in France in 1703⁹
• CSSR - Redemptorist Fathers - :
  St Alphonsus Retreat House, Tobyhanna²²
• FSC - Christian Brothers - www.cbconf.org:
  Founded in France in the late 1600s by Saint John Baptist de La Salle;¹⁰ came to St Thomas College, Scranton, in 1897; withdrew in 1942¹¹
• FSSP - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter - www.fssp.com:
  Founded in 1988, came to Scranton in 1992¹² (St Gregory's Academy, Elmhurst)
• MM - Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers) The Brothers were formerly called the Brothers of St Michael. - www.maryknoll.org:
  Founded by Revs James A Walsh and Thomas F Price in 1911; came to Scranton in 1913. Began building Vernard Apostolic School (Maryknoll Minor Seminary) in Clarks Green in 1915. Property was sold in 1967. CFMS was used instead of MM in some early records. I've been told that Maryknoll is a secular society rather than a religious order, so I'm not certain of the status of the Maryknoll Brothers. If someone can explain, I'd be much appreciative.¹³
• MSSST - Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity - :
  Cure of Ars Hospice, Silver Lake²²
• ObSA - Oblates of St Augustine - www.angelfire.com/pa5/augustinian
  
• OFM - Franciscan Friars

  a. Prov of the Most Holy Name of Jesus - founded 1901;²⁰ in 1947 were located at St Joseph's, Wilkes-Barre, and St Catherine's, Mountaintop²²

  b. Franciscan Custody of St Mary of the Angels (Byzantine-Slavonic Rite), now a part of the Assumption Province of the BVM (Holy Dormition Monastery, Sybertsville)

• OSJ - Oblates of St Joseph - www.osjoseph.org:
  Founded in Italy by the Blessed Giuseppe Marello in 1878;¹⁴ came to Pittston 1929¹⁵; Our Lady of Mt Carmel and St Rocco's, Pittston; St Anthony's, Exeter²²
• SC - Brothers of the Sacred Heart - www.boshf.org:
  Founded in Lyons, France, in 1821 by Father Andre Coindre¹⁶
• SCJ - Priests of the Sacred Heart - www.poshusa.org:
  Founded by the Venerable Leo John Dehon SCJ in France in 1878; came to the US (SD) in the 1920s²¹, and to the Diocese of Scranton in 1952.
• SJ - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) - www.jesuit.org:
  Founded in Rome in 1540 by St Ignatius Loyola;¹⁷ came to Scranton 1942¹⁸ (University of Scranton and Scranton Prep, Scranton)
• TOR - Third Order Regular of St. Francis (Franciscan Friars) - www.franciscanfriarstor.com:
  Came to the Diocese of Altoona at the invitation of Bishop Eugene A Garvey, a native of Carbondale, in 1908¹⁹

Notes

1. The Passionist Vocation Office, "About the Founder - St. Paul of the Cross," www.cpvoca-stpaul.org/fr-about.html
2. Our Lady of Victory Church, "Our Past Remembered," www.geocities.com/olvhl/history
3. Gallagher, Rev John P; A Century of History: The Diocese of Scranton 1868-1968, Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1968, p 302
4. Congregation of the Holy Cross, "Our History: A Pioneering Spirit," www.holycrosscsc.org/about/history.html
5. Gallagher, op cit, pp 78-82, 373-376
6. Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata, "Our Founder," www.stigmatines.com/whoweare/founder.html
7. Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata, "Our Chronology," www.stigmatines.com/whoweare/chronology.html [Note: According to the Stigmatine site, they arrived in Hazleton in 1907 and established the first Italian parish in Scranton in 1913. see below]
8. Gallagher, op cit, p302 [Note: According to Msgr Gallagher, the Stigmatines arrived in Hazleton in 1905, took over the pastorate of St Lucy's, Scranton, in 1908, and Most Precious Blood, Hazleton, in 1921. He has St Anthony's Scranton established in 1913, but doesn't specify that it was a Stigmatine parish, and has St Lucy's as the first Italian parish in Scranton, established before 1901.]
9. Congregation of the Holy Spirit USA, "Spiritan History," www.spiritans.org/about/history.html
10. Catholic Encyclopedia, 1917, "St John Baptist de la Salle," www.newadvent.org/cathen/08444a.htm
11. Gallagher, op cit, pp 277-279; 361-365
12. Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, "History of the North American District," www.fssp.org/en/historique.htm
13. Earley, James B, Envisioning Faith: A Pictorial History of the Diocese of Scranton, United States: 1993, p153
14. Vatican document, "Giuseppe Marello (1844-1895)," www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/documents/
    ns_lit_doc_20011125_marello_en.html
15. Gallagher, op cit, pp 302-303
16. Catholic Encyclopedia, 1917, "Brothers of the Sacred Heart," www.newadvent.org/cathen/13305a.htm
17. The University of Scranton, "St Ignatius, the Founder," www.uofs.edu/admin/jesfound.html
18. Gallagher, op cit, pp 364-367
19. The Franciscans, "History of the Province," www.franciscanfriarstor.com/friars/
    stf_detailed_province_history.htm
20. The Official Catholic Directory Anno Domini 1997, New Providence NJ: P J Kenedy and Sons, 1997
21. Society of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, About Us, www.poshusa.org/aboutus.html
22. The Official Catholic Directory Anno Domini 1947, New Providence NJ: P J Kenedy and Sons, 1997