Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Mission Society of Mandeville is a brotherhood of priests and lay men dedicated to Apostolic works in mission territories, participating in missionary activity through the spread of the Gospel and service of the Church. Preaching the Word, education, serving the poor, and caring for abandoned children are some of the ways through which we carry out the missionary mandate of the Church.

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During the late 1990's, officials of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome suggested to His Excellency Bishop Paul Michael Boyle, then Bishop of the Diocese of Mandeville in Jamaica, the project of a missionary institute specifically dedicated to the Caribbean. In 2001 Bishop Boyle proposed this project to a group of men already serving in the Diocese and on December 8th of that year, The Mission Society of Mandeville was founded with its first five members comprising three priests and two brothers. The Ordinary of the Society is the Bishop of Mandeville and being Bishop at the time, Bishop Boyle, presided the first Chapter. At that time one of the priests was elected as Prior of the newly formed Society and according to the Statutes and Directory, which were approved by Bishop Boyle, the Prior governs the Society under the guidance of the Ordinary. (see Ecclesiastical decree of approval)

On July 6th 2004, His Holiness, Pope John Paul II appointed a new Bishop to our Diocese, His Lordship Bishop Gordon Bennett, S.J. In the tradition of the Jesuits who have molded and formed the Church in Jamaica, our second Bishop, whose ancestry and Religious Order links him to our Island Nation, brought with him the vigor and enthusiasm of St. Ignatius of Loyola, building the Church of Mandeville, ad majorem Dei Gloriam.

Bishop Bennett retired in 2006 and since then our Diocese and the Society have had the fortune of falling under the careful watch of an Apostolic Administrator, Bishop Charles Dufor of the Diocese of Montego Bay. As an added bonus for our Diocese, the Prior of the Society, Monsignor Michel Palud, has been named the Permanent Delegate of the Apostolic Administrator.