Around the world - Africa
In 1929, the first four Josephite missionaries arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (at that time the Belgian Congo and more recently Zaire). Initially the Josephites worked as educationalists in the Parish of the Holy Family, in Katoka, near Kananga, the principal town of the Province of West Kasai.
Today the Josephites work in schools and parishes in the neighbouring Diocese of Mweka. They also administer a large senior and junior school at Limete on the outskirts of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Josephites are currently attracting a large number of vocations in Africa. After their postulancy, the novices spend a year at the novitiate house at Ilebo in the West Kasai before moving to the Scholasticate at Kimwenza in the Diocese of Kisantu, not far from Kinshasa.
As well as their work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Josephites have parish based communities in the African countries of Gabon and the Cameroon.
