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Identity
The Christian Brothers are a religious congregation of laymen within the Catholic Church. Their focus is the education and care of
young people, whom they endeavour to lead to faith in Christ, to a sense of belonging to the Church and to the full development of their human potential. The Brothers live in community, praying together
and supporting and encouraging one another in their work for God.
The present thrust of the Congregation is towards the poor and those who are marginalised in society. The Brothers are an
international group, with involvement in some 26 countries. People other than Brothers also support the work of the Congregation as members of the Edmund Rice Family. Motivated by the highest of ideals,
the Brothers acknowledge their human faults and failings as well as their increasing average age.
Origin
The Christian Brothers began in Ireland in 1802. The Founder was a Catholic layman, Edmund Rice. He had been a prosperous merchant
whose wife had been killed in an accident, leaving him with a handicapped daughter. His compassion for the desperately poor people, especially the children, in the Ireland of his time led him to do what
he could to alleviate their misery. Charity on a part time basis did not satisfy him. He saw his way forward as a man devoted entirely to the work of providing an education for children that would
encourage rather than jeopardise their Catholic Faith. The magnetism of his personality was such that like-minded men joined him in his aspirations. From 1802, aged 40, he lived as a religious brother,
first following the way of life of the Presentation Sisters, suitably adapted. By 1820, the Pope had approved a rule of life devised specifically for his group of Brothers.
Around the World
When Edmund Rice died in 1844, the Brothers were established in England as well as in Ireland. They were also in Sydney for a few
years in the 1840s. For the first hundred years of expansion, it was mainly a story of the Irish Brothers following Irish emigrants to their new homes.
Congregational Administration in
ITALY
Fratelli Cristiani
Via Marcantonio Colonna, 9
00192 Roma
Italia
Phone + 39 06 360 8971
Fax + 39 06 320 7747
E-mail
CLT Administration
Changes to contact
details (as of
29 December 2007)-
Kevin Callaghan (in
Rome): clt Bursar
Dan O'Keeffe (in
Dublin): Congregation Bursar
e-mail address:
okeeffe.dan1@gmail.com.
Closed e-mail
addresses-
cltsec@hotmail.com
clt.cfc@tiscali.it
cltarch@hotmail.com
hunter.j@tiscalini.it
Other Roles and
e-mail addresses:
Congregation Secretary &
Archivist: Neville Thornton (cfcneville@gmail.com).
All matters to be dealt with by CLT,
Death Notices, Archival material.
Assistant Archivist: Greg Wall
(wallgster@gmail.com)
General Secretary: Marcella
Marcelli
(christianbrothersrome@gmail.com)
Communications to this address: General
secretarial matters & information or
queries to the CLT or to the Marcantonio
Community, requests for Papal Blessings.
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Web site
www.edmundclt.org
IRELAND
St Helen's Province
St Helen's Provincialate
York Road
Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin
Ireland
Phone + 353 1 280 1214
Fax + 353 1 284 1657
E-mail
yorkrd@eircom.net
St Mary's Province
Christian Brothers' Provincialate
Cluain Mhuire
274 North Circular Road
Dublin 7
Ireland
Phone +353 1 868 0247
Fax +353 1 838 1075
E-mail cbprov@dna.ie
ENGLAND
St Mary's Province
St Mary's Province Centre
c/- Woodeaves
Hale Barns
Altrincham
Cheshire
WA15 OHF
England
Phone + 44 161 904 0786
Fax + 44 161 903 9182
E-mail pgg.cfc@virgin.net
UNITED STATES of AMERICA
North American
Province
North American
Province Centre
T. B. A.
Latin American
Region
British Columbia, West Coast Canada
Vancouver College
5400 Cartier Street
Vancouver BC V6M 3A5
Canada
Phone: 1 604 261 2414
Fax: 1 604 261 4677
Edmund Rice Christian Brothers North
America
21 Pryer Terrace
New Rochelle NY 10804
USA
Phone: 1 914 636 6194
Fax: 1 914 636 0021
E-mail
alb@cbinstitute.org
INDIA
St Joseph's Province
West Coast Region
Region
Centre
c/- Regina Mundi High School
P O
Chicalim
Vasco Da Gama Goa 403711
INDIA
Phone +91 832 254 1965 &
+91 832 254 0814
Email
regionl@sancharnet,in
AFRICA
Pan African Province
Southern
African District
West African
District
West African District Centre
P O Box 1031
Freetown
Sierra Leone
West Africa
Phone +232 22
235 314
Fax +232 22
235 042
E-mail
cfcwaf@sierratel.sl
Zambian
District
OCEANIA
St
Joseph's Province - New Zealand
Christian Brothers' Province Centre
24b Wharenui Road
Christchurch 8004
New Zealand
Province Centre-
Phone +64 3 348 5606
Fax +64 3 348 5605
E-mail
cfcnz@xtra.co.nz
Web site
www.edmundrice.org.nz
Papua New Guinea
Edmund Rice Region
P O Box
6851
Boroko NCD
111
Papua New Guinea
Phone + 675
325 5257
Fax + 675
325 2864
E-mail
vduggan@global.net.pg
Region Centre
- Erima-
Phone + 675
325 5257
Fax + 675
325 2864
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