Annual Meeting of the Minister General with new Ministers Provincials and Custodes

The Annual Meeting of the Minister General and his Definitory with the newly elected Ministers and Custodes for 2017 was officially opened with the celebration of the Eucharist presided over by the Vicar General, Br. Julio Bunader, OFM. The meeting is taking place at the General Curia in Rome and will run from Jan. 16 to 27. The new Ministers Provincials and Custodes: Fr. David Gaa, S. Barbarae Prov., USA Fr. Algirdas Malakauskis, S. Casimiri Prov., Lituania Fr. Hilton Farias de Souza, S. Crucis Prov., Brasilia Fr. Fidêncio Vanboemmel, Immac. Conc. B.M.V. Prov., Brasilia Fr. Flaerdi Silvestre Valvasori, SS. Cordis Jesu Cust., Brasilia Fr. Robert Mokry, Christi Regis Prov., Canada Fr. João Amilton dos Santos, S. Antonii Patavini Prov., Brasilia Fr. Michel Laloux, B. Ioannis Duns Scoti Prov., Francogallia et Belgium Fr. Marjan Čuden, S. Crucis Prov., Slovenia Fr. Armindo de J. Ferreira Carvalho, SS. Martyrum Marochiensium Prov., Lusitania Fr. Jozo Marinčić, S. Crucis Prov., Bosnia - Hercegovia Fr. Cielito R. Almazan, S. Petri Baptistae Prov., Philippinae Fr. Arturo Daquilanea, S. Antonii Patavini Cust., Philippinae Fr. Manuel Corullón Fernández, Cust. Protomartyrum Oridnis, Marochium Fr. Antonio Tremigliozzi, S. Mariae Gratiarum Prov., Italia Fr. Giuseppe Iandiorio, Immac. Conc. B.M.V. Prov, Italia Fr. Alessandro Mastromatteo, S. Michaëlis Archangeli Prov., Italia Fr. Bernard J. Marciniak, S. Francisci Assis. Prov., Polonia Fr. Francesco Patton, Custodia Terrae Sanctae, Terra Sancta Fr. Mario Favretto, S. Antonii Fratrum Minorum Prov., Italia Fr. Robert Campagna, Immac. Conc. B.M.V. Prov, USA Fr. František Xaverský Vladimir, SS. Salvatoris Prov., Slovakia Fr. Guido Zegarra Ponce, SS. XII Apostolorum Prov., Peruvia Fr. Danyl Botvina, S. Michaëlis Arch. Prov., Ucraina Fr. Fidel de Jesús Ojeda Rutiaga, S. Philippi de Iesu Prov., Méxicum Fr. Jesús Germánico Barahona, S. Francisci de Quito Prov., Aequatoria Fr. Andre Murhabale, S. Benedicti Africani Prov., Congensis Resp.Democ. Fr. Praveen Henry d’Souza, S. Thomae Apostoli Prov., India Fr. Phillip Miscamble, S. Spiritus Prov., Australia et Nova Zelandia Fr. Szabolcs Orbán, Transsylvaniae S. Stephani Regis Prov., Romania Fr. Virgile Agbessi, Verbi Incarnati Prov., Togum Fr. Daniel Alejandro Fleitas, S. Francisci Solano Prov., Argentina Fr. James J. Gannon, Assumptionis B.V.M. Prov., USA Fr. Francisco Paixao, S. Benedicti de Amazonia Cust., Brasilia Fr. Adrianus Sunarko, S. Michaëlis Archangeli Prov., Indonesia Fr. Carlo Maria D’Amodio, SS. Cordis Jesu Prov., Italia