Missionsorden#
Missionary Orders: At present (1995) more than 30 missionary women´s orders and about 20 missionary men´s orders have establishments in Austria, which personally and financially support mission stations all over the world with financing an personnel.
Missionary women´s orders: Sisters of Mercy, Comboni
Missionaries (Graz-Messendorf), Franciscan Missionary Sisters of
Mariahilf (Frastanz, province of Vorarlberg), Franciscan Missionaries
of the Virgin Mary (Vienna), Hallein School Sisters (Salzburg-Morzg),
Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood (Wernberg, Carinthia), Holy
Spirit Adoration Sisters, Sisters of the Divine Word, Missionary
Sisters "Queen of the Apostles" (Missionsschwestern "Koenigin der
Apostel) (1923 founded by Cardinal Innitzer, motherhouse in Vienna),
Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver (Bergheim near Salzburg),
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (Linz), Salvatorians (Vienna), Sisters
of the Divine Redeemer (Schwestern vom goettl. Erloeser) (Vienna),
Sisters of St. Vincent of Paul ( Daughters of Charity), etc.
Missionary men´s orders of: Comboni Missionaries of the Sacred
Heart (Graz-Messendorf), Franciscans, Society of the Salesians Don
Bosco (Vienna), Society of Missionaries of Africa (Gesellschaft der
Missionare von Afrika (White Fathers, Weisse Vaeter); Axams, Tirol),
Society of the Divine Word ( Divine Word Missionaries; Missionshaus
St. Gabriel, Lower Austria), Jesuits, Friars Minor, Capuchin,
Congregation of Missionaries of Mariannhill (Wels, Upper Austria),
Congregation of Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (Vienna), Lazarists (
Vincentians, Graz), Missionaries of the Society of Mary (Montfortan
Patres), Marian Secretariate in Elsbethen-Glasenbach, (Salzburg),
Missionaries of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Salzburg-Liefering),
Missionaries of the Precious Blood (Salzburg-Aigen), Missionaries of
the Holy Family (Maria Ellend, Lower Austria), Oblates of Mary
Immaculate (Vienna), St. Joseph's Missionaries of Mill Hill (Mission
house of Absam, Hall in Tirol), Cistercians (Schlierbach and
Wilhering).