On November 5, 2022, the Dominican friars of the Province of San Luis Bertrán in Colombia elected fr Franklin Buitrago Rojas, OP, as their Prior Provincial.
On 21 September 2022, the Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, published a decree announcing the erection of the Province of St. Charles Lwanga in Equatorial Africa on November 7th 2022.
On 22 August 2022 the Dominican friars of the Province of St. John the Baptist of Peru re-elected br. Rómulo Vásquez Gavidia, OP, as their Prior Provincial during the Provincial Chapter held at the Casa de Retiros Santa Rosa in Lima.
On 12 July 2022, the Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, appointed Br. Jamshed Albert Gill, OP, son of the Vice Province “Ibn-e-Mariam” of Pakistan, as Socius for Asia Pacific after the sudden and untimely death of Br. Amirtha Raj Mannes, OP, of the Province of India.
On June 7, 2022, the Province of St. Dominic of Canada elected fr Yves Bériault, OP, as Prior Provincial.
On June 4, 2022, the friars of the Province of St. Martin de Porres, USA, elected Brother Roberto Merced, O.P., as Prior Provincial for a four-year term. Following his confirmation by Brother Gerard Timoner, III, OP, Master of the Order of Preachers, on the Solemnity of Pentecost, Br. Roberto accepted his election. Br. Roberto was born in 1961 in Aguas…
On 17 May 2022, the friars of the Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary elected Brother Dominic Murphy, OP, as Prior Provincial for a four year term. Following his confirmation by Brother Gerard Timoner III, OP, Master of the Order of Preach
Ash WednesdayRome, 2 March 2022 Prot. 50/22/111 Letters to the Order “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart,with fasting and weeping and mourning.…sound the trumpet, declare a holy fast… gather the people”Joel 2:12, 15 Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Dominican Family, Pope Francis called for the dedication of Ash Wednesday, 2 March 2022, as a universal…
On 20 February 2022, the Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, appointed Brother Juan Manuel Hernández, OP, from the Province of Santiago de Mexico, as his Socius for Latin America and the Caribbean. He succeeds Brother Luis Javier Rubio, OP, who was recently elected Prior Provincial of the Province of Mexico. Born in 1970 in the…
The Dominican friars of the German Province of Teutonia have re-elected Brother Peter Kreutzwald, OP, as their Prior Provincial for a second four-year term. The re-election took place at the Provincial Chapter of Teutonia, which was held at the Dominican convent of Heilig Kreuz (Holy Cross) in Cologne, Germany, where the provincialate of the province is located. Br. Peter accepted…