What are we? A few figures...
Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) Statistics as of September 8, 2008
Brief history
• 18 July 1988: Founded as a clerical society of apostolic life • Liturgical books used: Roman Missal, Ritual, Pontifical, Martyrology and Breviary in force in 1962 • July 1988: Private audiences with Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger • 18 October 1988: Erected as an institute of pontifical right by the Holy See • Easter 1990: Cardinal Ratzinger visits the motherhouse (in Wigratzbad, Bavaria) and offers Mass in the Traditional rite • 1995: first personal parish entrusted to the FSSP • 12 September 1999: Pope John Paul II blesses the corner stones and crucifixes for the two new FSSP seminaries in Europe and in America • 8 October 1999; 20 October 2001: the Superior General delivers an address at the Synods of Bishops in Rome • December 2000; June 2002; June 2005; May 2008: Cardinal Castrillon-Hoyos, President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission and Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, comes to bless the new Saint Peter Seminary and to ordain FSSP priests • 29 June 2003: Definitive approval of the Constitutions by the Holy See • 22 February 2007: Foundation of the Confraternity of Saint Peter, a society which gathers those who are attached to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter and who wish to support its charism through prayers and sacrifices • March 2008: The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter is granted a personal parish in Rome
Members
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• Total: 347 • Priests (including associated and postulating priests): 208 • Deacons: 11 • Non-deacons seminarians (including postulants): 128
• Average age of members: 37 years • Deceased members: 4 • Nationalities: 26
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Increase
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• Initial numbers in July 1988: o 12 members o and 12 places of apostolate in 4 European countries
• Years of existence: 20
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Priestly ordinations in the FSSP over the last 9 years
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Year
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2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
Average
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Total
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12 |
15 |
12 |
19 |
17 |
7 |
14 |
8 |
12 |
13 |
Comments: One should add to those figures the number of priests ordained elsewhere, who have joined the FSSP afterwards as priests.
Locations
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• Located in: 4 continents ; 17 countries • Dioceses served: 102 o Europe: 56 o America: 40 o Oceania: 5 o Africa: 1
• Canonically erected houses: 30 • Personal parishes: 11 • Mass centers: 168
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Confraternity of Saint Peter
• Total members: 2210 o French speakers : 281 o German speakers: 271 o English speakers: 1658
[Source: General House FSSP; www.fssp.org]
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