Congregation of the Immaculate Conception

There are a number of

in their name. Several of them are discussed here.

The Order of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, otherwise known as the "Conceptionists", was founded in 1484 at

The Mission Priests of the Immaculate Conception, also known as the Missionaries of Rennes, was founded at St-Méen in the

Servites of the Immaculate Conception

The Servites of the Immaculate Conception were founded at

The priests of the Immaculate Conception got charge of three congregations at Constantinople, one at Feri-kuei, for Georgians and Armenians, another for the Latins at Scutari, and a third for Georgian Greek Catholics at Pera.^[1]

Candidates for the priesthood were ordained in Saratov by the Bishop of Tiraspol, who was the ecclesiastical superior of the Catholic Church in Georgia; for a time they filled parish duties as secular priests, after which they were appointed by the congregation to a post where they might minister to their countrymen.^[1]

The Sister Servites of the Immaculate Conception conducted two primary schools, to which children are admitted, without distinction of creed.^[1]

According to Father Christopher Zugger, nine Servite missionaries from Constantinople, headed by

Sisters of Providence of the Immaculate Conception

Founded at

In 1858 the congregation received the approbation of the Apostolic See, and shortly afterwards the confirmation of its statutes. By 1876 there were 150 convents in Belgium, England, Italy and the United States. The mother-house is at Champion.[1]

A branch of the Association of the

of that city, who conceived the idea of founding a congregation to allow the expression of the Christian life in various forms. In 1820 he placed the first three members of the Holy Family in a house at Bordeaux, under the name of the Ladies of Loreto. As the numbers increased the sisters were divided by their founder into two categories: (1) Those engaged directly in the various works undertaken by the Institute; (2) Lay sisters who perform household duties, and are called the Sisters of St. Martha. These are sub-divided into three branches: (a) The Sisters of St. Joseph who undertake the charge of orphans; (b) The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, who devote themselves to educational work; (c) The Sisters of Hope, who nurse the sick. The Institute encountered much opposition at first, but the constitutions have now been canonically approved by the Holy See. The works of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception are numerous; they devote themselves to educational work and visiting the poor.

In the early 20th century they had 15 convents in Great Britain and Ireland, to all of which and to five boarding-schools elementary schools are attached. About 230 sisters taught in these convents, the English novitiate being at Rock Ferry, Cheshire, the other English houses: at Great Prescot Street, London, E.; Leeds; Sicklinghall, Yorkshire; Stockport; Macclesfield; Stalybridge; Woodford, Essex; Ramsgate; Liscard, Cheshire; Birkenhead; also in Wrexham, Wales; and in Leith, Scotland. Attached to the Leeds convent is a juniorate for testing vocations.

The habit in England only is blue with a white girdle and a black veil.

Twenty years after

, on 11 July 1874. Mother Mary died in 1885, at the age of 48.

Their habit consisted of a black tunic and a blue scapular in honor of the Virgin Mary.

The Community was a teaching order among the young in the State of Louisiana. Following the Second Vatican Council, however, the order's ranks dwindled (as with so many other communities) and by 8 December 2024, there was only one living member, Sister Jerome.

In the 2007 film, The Church on Dauphine Street (by Ann Hedreen and Rustin Thompson), their former mother-house, the Immaculate Conception Convent, is featured. Built in 1932, it is now the St Gerard Majella Center and Archdiocesan Deaf Ministry. The film traces its restoration following the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina.

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The order "Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Mary" (RCM, Concepcionistas Misioneras de la Enseñanza) was founded in 1892 in

.

See also

• Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, founded in Lithuania, convent in Connecticut
• Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
• Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, the Servers' Guild of the Manila Cathedral
• Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception

•  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Congregation of the Immaculate Conception". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Bibliography to the Louisiana Order

• The Catholic Church in Louisiana, by Roger Baudier, New Orleans, 1939.
• Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States, edited by Thomas P. McCarthy, CSV, The Catholic University of America Press, 1964.
  ISBN 0-8132-1312-6
• Spicing Ecclesiastical Gumbo: The Life of Napoléon-Joseph Perché, by William Lemuel Greene, Claitor's Publishing Division, 2012.
  ISBN 1-59804-636-5
• Blessed Francis Seelos Xavier Seelos Church: Celebrating 150 Years of the Former St Vincent de Paul Church, by the Very Reverend José I. Lavastida Mata, Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos Parish, 2015.

• RCM Delegation of North America Site
• Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
• Concepcionistas Misioneras de la Enseñanza