Consolata Missionaries

The Consolata Missionaries are an Italian Roman Catholic missionary congregation for men and women. 

History 
The Instituto Missioni Della Consolata (hence the abbreviation I.M.C. and M.C. for its female congregation) was established on 29 January 1901 by the beatified Italian priest Giuseppe Allamano.  For men, it is a Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right .  Its headquarters are at Viale della Mura Aurelie 11-13, 00165 in Rome, Italy. 

Statistics 
In 2012, the male branch of the congregation had 218 houses and 1,000 members, including 758 priests.  Sister Leonella Sgorbati, M.C., was beatified as a martyr in 2017. 

Superiors general 
 Bishop Filippo Perlo (1926.02.16 – 1929.01.11)
 Domenico Fiorina (1949.09.01 – 1969)
 Mario Bianchi (1970 - 1981)
 Giuseppe Inverardi (1982 - 1993)
 Pietro Trabucco (1993 – 2005.05.10)
 Aquileo Fiorentini (2005.05.10 – 2011.06.08)
 Stefano Camerlengo (2011.06.08 – present)
The current Superior General of the Sisters of Consolata Missionaries is Simona Brambilla since 7 June 2011. 

Prelates from their ranks 
Deceased (by year of death)
 1930: Fr.  Giuseppe Balbo, Apostolic Prefect of Meru (Kenya)
 1933: Fr.  Gaudenzio Barlassina, Apostolic Prefect of Kaffa (Ethiopia)
 1935: Fr.  Francesco Cagliero, Prefect Apostolic of Iringa (Tanzania)
 1944: Bishop Giuseppe Perrachon, Apostolic Vicar emeritus of Nyeri (Kenya)
 1948: Bishop Gabriele Perlo, Apostolic Vicar emeritus of Mogadishu (Somalia)
 1948: Bishop Filippo Perlo, Apostolic Vicar emeritus of Kenya (Kenya) and Superior General emeritus of Consolata Missionaries
 1953: Bishop Luigi Santa, Bishop of Rimini (Italy)
 1960: Bishop Antonio Torasso, Apostolic Vicar of Florencia (Colombia)
 1965: Bishop Attilio Beltramino, Bishop of Iringa (Tanzania)
 1966: Bishop José Nepote-Fus, Bishop-prelate emeritus of Roraima (Brazil)
 1976: Bishop Lawrence Victor Bessone, Bishop of Meru (Kenya)
 1978: Bishop Carlo Re, Bishop emeritus of Ampurias e Tempio (Italy)
 1990: Bishop Carlo Maria Cavallera, Bishop emeritus of Marsabit (Kenya)
 2012: Bishop Angelo Cuniberti, Apostolic Vicar emeritus of Florencia (Colombia)
 2014: Bishop José Luis Serna Alzate, Bishop emeritus of Líbano–Honda (Colombia)
 2014: Bishop Servílio Conti, Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Roraima (Brazil)Alive
 Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tunja (Colombia) and President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia
 Bishop Evaristo Marc Chengula, Bishop of Mbeya (Tanzania)
 Bishop Giovanni Crippa, Bishop of Estância (Brazil)
 Bishop Carillo Gritti, Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil)
 Bishop Anthony Ireri Mukobo, Apostolic Vicar of Isiolo (Kenya) and Titular Bishop of Rusguniæ
 Bishop Peter Kihara Kariuki, Bishop of Marsabit (Kenya)
 Bishop Francisco Lerma Martínez, Bishop of Gurué (Mozambique)
 Bishop Aldo Mongiano, Bishop emeritus of Roraima (Brazil)
 Bishop Francisco Javier Múnera Correa, Apostolic Vicar of San Vicente del Caguán (Colombia) and Titular Bishop of Aquæ novæ in Numidia
 Bishop Virgilio Pante, Bishop of Maralal (Kenya)
 Bishop Joaquím Humberto Pinzón Güiza, Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Leguízamo–Solano (Colombia) and Titular Bishop of Otočac
 Bishop José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, Bishop of Manzini (Swaziland). 
 Bishop Elio Rama, Bishop of Pinheiro (Brazil)
 Bishop Ambrogio Ravasi, Bishop emeritus of Marsabit (Kenya)
 Bishop Inácio Saure, Bishop of Tete (Mozambique)
 Bishop Walmir Alberto Valle, Bishop emeritus of Joaçaba (Brazil)
 Fr.  Alberto Trevisiol, Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Urbaniana University

Source and external links 
 I.M.C. website, mainly in Italian
 GigaCatholic, with many biographical links

References

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