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Peter HasslacherDuring these years he underwent a spiritual change, and in particular, by studying the Church Fathers, stirred his mind with theological knowledge ; after his liberation he entered, in the spring of 1840, the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, at Saint-Acheul, France.
Bill Ritter In 1987, Ritter and his wife Jeannie moved to Zambia as missionaries for the Catholic Church, where they would open a food distribution and education center.
George Mitchell (priest)Within a month of his arrival, on 18 December 1864, Mitchell was ordained deacon, in Bloemfontein, and he took up residence at Thaba ` Nchu on 10 May the following year.
Kenneth VavrinaHe decided that his mission should go abroad in 1977, and after meeting with Mother Teresa's Sisters of Mercy in Rome, he flew to Yemen to work with lepers.
Pavlo TychynaIn 1900 he became a member of an archiary chorus in the Trinity (Troitsky) monastery near Chernihiv.
Bernard Mizeki Through the work of the Cowley Fathers' mission, and particularly the German missionary Baroness Paula Dorothea von Blomberg he became a Christian and was one of the first to be baptized in St Philip's Mission, Sir Lowry Road, on 7 March 1886.
Thomas Rees (Congregational minister)He joined the Independent chapel at Capel Isaac and began to preach in March 1832.
William BickertonAt a conference in 1872 in West Elizabeth, Bickerton was chosen to spend the remainder of his days on missionary work.
Tommaso ReggioHe founded the Sisters of Saint Martha in 1878, a congregation devoted to caring for the poor.
Frederick RolfeIn 1904, soon after his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest, the convert Robert Hugh Benson formed a chaste but passionate friendship with Rolfe.
Lewis EdwardsHe had already begun to preach for the Calvinistic Methodist s when, in December 1830 he went to London to take advantage of the newly opened university.
Tim Costello In 1981, Costello travelled to Switzerland with his wife, Merridie, where they both studied theology at International Baptist Seminary Rueschlikon, near Zurich, before returning to Australia to become the minister of St Kilda Baptist Church.
Anne, Princess RoyalA Girl Guides company, the 1st Buckingham Palace Company including the Holy Trinity Brompton Brownie pack, was reformed in May 1959, specifically so that, like her mother, Anne could socialise with girls her own age.
Peter AbbsAfter leaving St Joseph's School in Sheringham in 1954, Abbs travelled to Liverpool to join Saint Peter's College, a seminary run by the Mill Hill missionary fathers.
Joseph Booth (missionary)After becoming a Seventh-day Adventist in Cape Town in 1902, Booth went to the United States and convinced the Seventh-day Adventist church of Plainfield, New Jersey to fund the establishment of a mission near Blantyre, originally called Plainfield mission and later renamed Malamulo.
Leonora KingAfter joining the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, she left for China in 1877 where she was a missionary doctor with the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society in the northern Chinese province of Chihli.
Leonard CheshireOn 5 April 1959, in Bombay's Roman Catholic Cathedral, he married Sue Ryder, also a Roman Catholic convert and humanitarian.
Li Tim-OiAlready appointed as a deacon to serve in the colony of Macau at the Macau Protestant Chapel, she was ordained priest on 25 January 1944, by Ronald Hall, Bishop of Victoria, in response to the crisis among Anglican Christians in China caused by the Japanese invasion.
Eric J. LottIn 1973, the Andhra Christian Theological College released Service for All Seasons, Lott's ecumenical worship book, which continues to be the primary worship book for students of Baptist, Lutheran, Anglican, Pentecostal, and Methodist backgrounds studying theology at the seminary in Hyderabad.
George WigramHe had considered joining Anthony Norris Groves and his mission to Baghdad in June 1829, but changed his mind just prior to the faith mission set off.
J. S. WoodsworthFollowing in his father's footsteps, J. S. was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1896 and spent two years as a circuit preacher in Manitoba before going to study at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and at Oxford University in England.
Denis ChicoineIn 1985, Fathers Chicoine, Hughes and McGilloway of Mount Saint Michael were conditionally ordained as priests by the Traditionalist Catholic Bishop George Musey.
Joseph Jessingthumb | Right | 160px | Father Jessing's letter in 1877 requesting the relocation of his orphanage and orphan industries to Columbus, Ohio Soon after arriving at Sacred Heart, Jessing became deeply concerned about the orphan boys in his parish.
John Bate CardaleCardale's religious beliefs were evangelical and, like other such believers, he was excited by reports of healings and glossolalia taking place in Glasgow in 1830.
Dave HensmanIn 1992 he started a home Bible study with eight friends which grew to become a number of Calvary Chapel churches in British Columbia.
Vincent J. McCauleyHis time at Creighton was cut short when members of the Congregation of Holy Cross gave a parish mission at St. Francis Xavier in the fall of 1924.
Alden HathawayIn 2007, Hathaway relocated to Beaufort, SC joining the staff of the Parish Church of St. Helena in the Diocese of South Carolina.
James Roosevelt BayleyIn 1857 a group of Benedictine Sisters arrived from Pennsylvania and in the following year Bayley sent five women to train with the Sisters of Charity.
Wendy BeckettIn 1946, she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, a congregation of Religious Sister s dedicated to education.
Charles WordsworthHe had previously taken holy orders, though he only became priest in 1840, and he had a strong religious influence with the boys.
H. B. SharmanShowing considerably more interest in agriculture and business than in religion during his youth, Sharman was profoundly affected by the visit of T. H. Crossley, a Methodist evangelist, to Stratford in 1884 at a time when the Protestant churches of North America were being swept by religious revivals.
George Carey Carey was a curate at St Mary's Islington, worked at Oak Hill Theological College and St John's Theological College, Nottingham and became Vicar of St Nicholas' Church, Durham in 1975.
Joseph (Balabanov) March 19, 1984 hieromonk Joseph became hegumen of the Ilinsky Church.
Dominic SteeleHe was appointed lay minister in charge of St Aidans Anglican Church Annandale in 2002.
Gene Scott In 1975, while serving his Oroville ministry, Scott was approached to serve as a financial consultant for the forty-five-year-old'' Faith Center'' church in Glendale, California, by its then pastor and founder, religious broadcaster Ray Schoch.
Hildegard BurjanOn October 4, 1919, Hildegard Burjan founded the congregation of sisters named Caritas Socialis.
Marcus JastrowA few weeks later, Nov., 1862, the order for his expulsion was revoked, and gave occasion for a controversy between the congregation at Warsaw (which had continued his salary until he went to Mannheim) and that of Mannheim ; at Jastrow's request the latter released him.
Pedro Poveda CastroverdeIn 1902 he was assigned to preach a Lenten mission in Guadix to a group of people so poor they lived in caves.
John Sebastian Marlowe WardAlthough never ordained in the Anglican Church, in 1927 Ward, believing himself to be called by God to help prepare the world for the return of Christ, started a religious community dedicated to that end.
John EzzidioHe became a lay preacher in 1842 and also ran a Sunday school.
Nathan Homer KnorrOn September 24, 1942, Knorr suggested that the Society establish another school to train missionaries for service in foreign countries.
Peter DeynekaBelieving that he was called to evangelize his own people, Deyneka attended Moody Bible Institute and graduated from St. Paul Bible School in 1925 as valedictorian.
Mark Pattison (academic)He was ordained priest in 1843, and in the same year became tutor of Lincoln College, where he rapidly made a reputation as a clear and stimulating teacher and as a sympathetic friend of youth.
John LuckIn 1886 Luck obtained members of the Society of Joseph for the Foreign Missions, known as the Mill Hill fathers, for work among the Māori people, who, except for the mission of James McDonald, had been neglected by the Catholic Church since the 1860s.
Mother Mary LouisIn 1934 the Sisters of St. Joseph took up plans which Mother Mary Louis had begun shortly before her illness, to build an Academy for girls in Queens County, NY.
Steve Hill (evangelist)Early in 1995, Hill went to London, England where a revival was happening at Holy Trinity Brompton Anglican Church.
Edward Ingram (diplomat)His funeral was held at Albury Church, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, and a memorial service was held at St Margaret's Church, Westminster In 1943, money was invested to establish The Maurice Ingram Trust whose purposes were (1)'' a boy or girl from the Albury School to help with books, clothing or fees on going to the secondary school'' (2) assist with local Sunday school expenses (3) beautification of local church surrounds.
Lewis Sperry ChaferThen, in 1924, Chafer and his friend William Henry Griffith Thomas realized their vision of a simple, Bible teaching theological seminary and founded Dallas Theological Seminary (originally Evangelical Theological College).
Paul Masson Masson emigrated from the Burgundy region of France in 1878 to California, United States, where he met Charles Lefranc, one of a number of French immigrants who had expanded the viticulture introduced into the Santa Clara Valley by the Catholic mission fathers.
Stewart HeadlamHeadlam was dismissed from St Matthew's Bethnal Green by his rector in 1878 after getting into an angry dispute with Bishop Jackson over the propriety of the music hall.
Henry Joseph O'LearyO'Leary founded a convent in 1916 when the Sisters of St. Martha of Prince Edward Island was established.
Michel ChartrandIn 1933, he trained to be a Trappist monk, but left after two years and worked with a Roman Catholic Church youth movement.
Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician)After spending the rest of the 1960s attached to congregations in East Belfast and Fivemiletown, Bradford was fully ordained in 1970 and given his own parish in the Suffolk area of southwest Belfast.
Joseph StrubIn April 1874, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, Michael Domenec, assigned Strub to St. Mary's Church in Sharpsburg, hoping that the parish could serve as a place to open a school for Catholic men.
Philippe ViardIn 1861, noting the diminishing number of sisters in the Wellington convent, he invited Auckland Sisters of Mercy to come to Wellington.
Raymond JosephIn 1954, he volunteered as an interpreter for a Baptist preacher, who assisted Joseph in coming to the United States.
Franz PfannerAfter serving as chaplain to the Sisters of Mercy at Agram for several years, he went to Rome (1862), and there saw the Trappists for the first time.
Martin Nicholas LohmullerHe also led the effort to establish Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, which opened in 1963.
Mother Mary LouisIn addition to increasing the number of vocations to her Congregation, Mother Mary Louis was directly responsible for the purchase and establishment of the Sisters of St. Joseph's Motherhouse in Brentwood, NY in 1901.
Burkard HuwilerHe attended a gymnasium in Einsiedeln, after which, in 1887, he entered the seminary of the Missionaries of Africa (traditionally known as the White Fathers), determined to serve in the missions there.
Stanton CoitIn 1888, he went to London as minister of the South Place Religious Society, and during his ministry it was renamed the South Place Ethical Society (SPES) at his insistence.
Thomas Baker (missionary) Baker married Harriet Moon and was accepted as a probationary minister in February 1859 to be sent to a mission field.
John Henry NewmanTen days later he preached his first sermon in Holy Trinity at Over Worton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire when on a visit to his former teacher, the Reverend Walter Mayers, who had been curate there since 1823.
Frederick WedgeOn February 18, 1917 Wedge was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital after collapsing while preaching in the evening service at the Rhinelander First Baptist Church, and was unable to complete the service.
Omer Alphonse DemersDemers helped open the first school in the town in 1915 and helped establish a Catholic parish.
Alexander BulatovichIn 1903 after his talks with Saint John of Kronstadt he resigned from the Army and became a monk (later hiero-schema-monk) of the Russian monastery Skiti Andreou, near the much larger St. Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece.
Nectarios of AeginaIn December 1908, at the age of 62, St. Nectarios resigned from his post as school director and withdrew to the Holy Trinity Convent on Aegina, where he lived out the rest of his life as a Monk.
Sydney KirkbyIn 1914 he returned to pastoral duties at St Anne's church in Ryde, New South Wales.
Giacomo BiniOn 7 October 1984 the parish of `` St. Mary of the Angels'' was established with Giacomo Bini as its first parish priest.
John Rowlands (priest)He was a Curate at Mary, Woodford and then with the Mission to Seaman until 1975 when he left to become vicar at St Mary's church, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Douglas NichollsFollowing his mother's death he took a renewed interest in Christianity and was baptised at Northcote Church of Christ (now Northern Community Church of Christ) in 1935.
Stephen VarzalyIn 1937, Varzaly -- by then stationed for six years at St. Michael Greek Catholic Church in Rankin, Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh's Monongahela Valley -- joined three dozen other Byzantine rite priests to form a Carpatho-Rusyn diocese independent of Rome and the Latin rite bishops of the United States.
Julian Moreton Moreton could not become an Anglican priest in England, therefore, around the year 1847 he applied to become a missionary.
Eliza Maria GillespieOn laying down the burdens of her superiorship, Mother Angela was chosen Mistress of Novices at St. Mary's, and in September, 1886, she was again made the head of St. Mary's Academy, at which post she remained until her death.
Thomas C. JerdonAround 1845 the Jerdon's lived in their Ooty home Woodside, (Woodside originally belonged to General Watson) and their children were baptised at the local St. Stephens church.
Denise Main Starting with a trip to Honduras in 1995 as with St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, CA, Main saw the urgent need for anti-retroviral medication.
John Charles McQuaid While he was being trained as a religious and then as a priest, McQuaid's great ambition was to become a missionary to Africa.
Liam MowerHe returned home to Archbishop Thurstan School (now Archbishop Sentamu academy for science), Hull, to study for GCSEs, but made a brief return to Billy Elliot on 22 November 2006, performing in a charity gala for the children's charity Place2Be.
Robert DunneThey arrived at Brisbane in May 1861 and Dunne began to carry out the work of diocesan secretary in addition to his duties as a parish priest.
Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus 1939 The Foundation and first community of the Little Sisters of Jesus in Sidi Boujnan, Touggourt.
August William EdwinsIn 1904 the China Mission Society (CMS), a group of Augustana members interested in establishing mission work in China, called him to serve as its first missionary to China.
Georgios VoulgarakisOn September 12, 2008 the Minister Voulgarakis resigned from his position, by touchiness, because the name of his wife was involved in the case (land-exchange) of Vatopedi monastery in Mount Athos.
John BreedenIn October 1910, he addressed the Madras Missionary Conference where he made his first appeal for the establishment of St. George's Homes evincing the plight of poor and deprived children.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries.
Monroe E. DoddWhile attending school in Brazil, Tennessee, Dodd was converted to Christianity and joined the Poplar Grove Baptist Church, having been baptized on August 12, 1892.
Steve CaballeroCaballero was brought up as a Catholic, studied Zen/Taoism for 6 years, and in 2005 returned to a non-denominational Christian church.
Leopold of Alpandeire He decided to devote himself to religious life after hearing two Capuchin friars preach in the city of Ronda, on the occasion of the beatification of the friar, Didacus Joseph of Cadiz, in 1894.
Paul RusesabaginaHer name was Esther, and on September 8, 1967 they married and he began attending the Faculty of Theology in the nation of Cameroon to become a minister.
Joseph OnasakenratA devoutly religious man, Onasakenrat became an ordained minister in 1880, and worked to translate religious works into the Mohawk language.
Teresa DemjanovichThe Sister Miriam Teresa League of Prayer was founded in the summer of 1946 to spread the knowledge of Sister Miriam Teresa's life and mission, and to work for her Cause of beatification and canonization.
Frans WiertzHe worked as a chaplain at the saints Peter and Paul parish in Schaesberg, before being asked to build a church and to start a new parish for the new neighbourhood De Heeg in Maastricht in 1977 ; the saints Monulph and Gondulph parish.
Dez DickersonIn 1980 when off the road for Christmas break, Dickerson had a profound conversion experience and became a born-again Christian.
Mary Theresa Led?chowskaOn 8 September 1897 (the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, but also the anniversary of Claver's death), she and her first companions professed their permanent religious vows as Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver.
Michael Sopocko In 1942, during World War II Sopocko and other professors and students had to go into hiding near Vilnius for about two years.
Thomas Stephens (educationist)His father migrated to England, after being ordained, and remained, until his death in 1864, in charge of the Westmoreland parish.
Alfred SakerIn 1858 he founded the Cameroon city of Victoria, since renamed Limbé, with Jamaican settlers from Fernando Po when Spanish authorities no longer allowed Baptist churches there.
Mary Juliana HardmanIn 1851 she placed the orphanage founded by her father at Maryvale under the care of Sisters of her community, making her own sister, Mary Hardman, in religion Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost, superioress.
Edith SteinShe received the religious habit of the Order as a novice in April 1934, taking the religious name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Carmel Henry CarforaIn 1917 de Landas Berghes and Carfora united their jurisdictions, adopting the name'' North American Old Roman Catholic Diocese'' and established its headquarters in Chicago.
John ChilembweIn 1892 he became a house servant of Joseph Booth, a radical and independently minded missionary.