KATOLİK ASSOMPTiONİSTLER TARİKATI ve TÜRKİYE

Abstract

At the second part of the 19'h century the Catholic Church encouraged its members to create new organisations and religious orders for organising the missionary activities in a more systemarical and modern way. These orders shared the certain part of the world among them for their activities. The Assomptionİst order, wich is the subject of this aı"'ticle, with the promotion of the Church, chose the East European countries including Turkey. The main task of the order is the integration of the Eastern Churches to the Catholic Church. Emmanuel d'Alzon who is the founder of the order, is a french bishop. In order :to realise its main task, the order, wich has been backed by the French catholics, uses all sorts of press and the media facilities and the educational activities. They also organise pilgrimages to religious sites. The Assomptionists organİsed most of these activities in different cities of Turkey over the long years. In this article we tried to analyse the histerical developme~ıt of this order, its founder and its activies, especially in connection with Turkey.

At the second part of the 19'h century the Catholic Church encouraged its members to create new organisations and religious orders for organising the missionary activities in a more systemarical and modern way. These orders shared the certain part of the world among them for their activities. The Assomptionİst order, wich is the subject of this aı"'ticle, with the promotion of the Church, chose the East European countries including Turkey. The main task of the order is the integration of the Eastern Churches to the Catholic Church. Emmanuel d'Alzon who is the founder of the order, is a french bishop. In order :to realise its main task, the order, wich has been backed by the French catholics, uses all sorts of press and the media facilities and the educational activities. They also organise pilgrimages to religious sites. The Assomptionists organİsed most of these activities in different cities of Turkey over the long years. In this article we tried to analyse the histerical developme~ıt of this order, its founder and its activies, especially in connection with Turkey.