# List of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. The following is a list of notable members of the congregation.

## Superiors General

Superiors General were elected for life until 1972, and are currently elected in 6 year terms.
* 1816–1861 (died): Eugène de Mazenod (1782–1861), France. Founder, first Superior General, and Saint
* 1861–1892 (died): Joseph Fabre (1824–1892), France
* 1893–1897 (died): Louis Soullier (1826–1897), France
* 1898–1906 (resigned): Cassien Augier (1846–1927), France
* 1908–1931 (died): Augustin Dontenwill (1857–1931), Canada
* 1932–1944 (died): Théodore Labouré [fr] (1883–1944), France
* 1947–1972 (resigned): Léo Deschâtelets (1899–1974), Canada
* 1972–1974 (resigned): Richard Hanley (1931–?), USA
* 1974–1986 (resigned): Fernand Jetté (1921–2000), Canada
* 1986–1998 (resigned): Marcello Zago (1932–2001), Italy
* 1998–2010 (resigned): Heinz Wilhelm Steckling (born 1947), Germany
* 2010–2022: Louis Lougen (born 1952), USA
* 2022–present: Luis Ignacio Rois Alonso (born 1963), Spain

## Candidates for sainthood
### Beatified

* Joseph Gérard (1831–1914), French missionary priest, called the "Apostle of the Basuthos," beatified in 1988
* Józef Cebula (1902–1941), Polish priest killed by the Nazis at Mauthausen concentration camp, beatified in 1999
* Blessed Oblate Martyrs of Spain, 22 Oblate companions executed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, beatified in 2011
* The Martyrs of Laos, one Italian and five French missionary priests, beatified in 2016

### Venerable

* Vital-Justin Grandin (1829–1902), Bishop of St. Albert, Canada. Declared venerable in 1966
* Charles Dominique Albini [fr] (1790–1839), the "Apostle of Corsica". Declared venerable in 1968
* Anthoni Kowalczyk (1866–1947). The first Polish Oblate to live and work in Canada. Declared venerable in 2013
* Ovide Charlebois (1862–1933), Apostolic Vicar of Keewatin, Canada. Declared venerable in 2019

### Servant of God

* Victor Lelièvre [fr] (1876–1956), Quebec City. Quebec. Declared a Servant of God in 2006
* Bastiampillai Anthonipillai Thomas, founder of the Rosarians Order. Declared a Servant of God in 2006

## Cardinals

* Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert (1802–1886), Archbishop of Paris, France
* Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve (1883–1947), Archbishop of Quebec, Canada
* Thomas Cooray (1901–1988), Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
* Sebastian Koto Khoarai (1929–2021), Archbishop of Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho
* Francis George (1937–2015), Archbishop of Chicago, USA
* Orlando Quevedo (born 1939), Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines

## Archbishops

* Alexandre-Antonin Taché (23 July 1823 – 22 June 1894), Archbishop of Saint Boniface, Canada
* Augustin Dontenwill (June 4, 1857 – November 30, 1931), Archbishop of Vancouver, Canada
* Denis Hurley (1915–2004), Archbishop of Durban, South Africa
* Adam Exner (born 1928), Archbishop of Vancouver (1991–2004), Canada
* Hubert Constant (1931–2011), Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
* Peter Alfred Sutton (1934–2015), Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Canada
* Roger Schweitz (born 1940), Archbishop of Anchorage, USA
* Jabulani Adatus Nxumalo (born 1944), Archbishop of Bloemfontein, South Africa
* Sylvain Lavoie (born 1947), Metropolitan Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Canada
* Buti Joseph Tlhagale (born 1947), Archbishop of Johannesburg, South Africa
* Angelito Lampon, (born 1950), Metropolitan Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines
* Gerard Tlali Lerotholi (born 1954), Archbishop of Maseru, Lesotho
* Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda (born 1959), Archbishop of Windhoek, Namibia
* Bejoy Nicephorus D'Cruze (born 1956), Archbishop of Dhaka & President of Catholic Bishops Conference of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

## Bishops

* Pierre-Paul Durieu (1830–1899), first Bishop of New Westminster (Vancouver) (1890–1899), Canada. Ordained by Eugène de Mazenod.
* Edmund Peiris (1897–1989), Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
* Albert Sanschagrin (1911–2009), Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada
* Hubert O'Connor (1928–2007), Bishop of Prince George, Canada
* Erwin Hecht (1933–2016), Bishop of Kimberley, South Africa
* Michael David Pfeifer (born 1937), Bishop of San Angelo, United States of America
* David Douglas Crosby (born 1949), Bishop of Hamilton, Canada
* Sylvester Anthony John David (born 1953), Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Town, South Africa
* Mark Stuart Edwards (born 1959), Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
* Carlos Alberto Salcedo Ojeda (born 1960), Auxiliary Bishop of Huancayo, Peru
* Pierre-Olivier Tremblay [fr] (born 1970), Auxiliary Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Canada

## Vicars

* Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez (1822–1890), Vicar Apostolic of British Columbia (1822–1890), Canada
* Benjamin de Jesus (1940–1997), Vicar Apostolic of Jolo, Philippines
* Victor Gnanapragasam (1940–2020), Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan
* Jean Khamsé Vithavong (born 1942), Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane, Laos
* Charlie Malapitan Inzon (born 1965), Vicar Apostolic of Jolo, Philippines

## Priests and religious

* Pierre Yves Kéralum (1817–1872), missionary priest and architect
* Carl Kabat (1933–2022), American priest and peace activist
* Albert Lacombe (1827–1916), French-Canadian missionary during the formation of Canada, broker of peace between the Cree and Blackfoot tribes
* Lucien-Antoine Lagier (1814–1874), Canadian priest.
* Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859–1938), linguist, cartographer, and ethnologist
* Émile Petitot (1838–1916), French cartographer and ethnologist
* Alexis Joveneau [fr] (1926–1992), Belgian missionary priest, participant in five National Film Board of Canada documentaries on the Innu, accused of abuse of Innu congregants during his tenure in Northern Quebec.
* Guy Mary-Rousselière (1913–1994) French-Canadian missionary priest, anthropologist and photographer, whose career was spent mostly in the Canadian Arctic.
* Ronald Rolheiser (born 1947), Canadian-born author of several spiritual books
* Larry Rosebaugh (1935–2009), American priest and activist
* Constantine Scollen (1841–1902), Irish-born missionary priest among the Blackfoot, Cree and Métis peoples of Canada and US.