The revenue from our January 8, 2017 collection will be used when Bishop DiMarzio receives appeals for support from various missions in the Diocese of Brooklyn and when mission appeals are requested from the Society of the Immaculate Conception. The collection is payable to the Compostela Fund of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. Last year the Diocesan Mission collection aided:
Propagation of the Faith, Brooklyn
Bethlehem University Foundation
Aruba: St. Filomena’s Parish Pastoral Center
China: Archbishop of Shenyang
Haiti: Archdiocese of Cap-Haitien and the Catholic Medical Mission Board/Bishop Sullivan Hospital
Ethiopia: Vicariate Apostolic of Nekemte
Grenada: Diocese of St. Georges in Grenada
India: Diocese of Sultanpet; Kumbakonam Diocese Society; Tamilnadu Carmelites of St. Joseph’s Province
Italy: Diocese of Genoa
Nicaragua: Diocese of Esteli
Nigeria: Archdiocese of Onitsha
Pakistan: Catholic Commission for Justice & Peace of the Bishops-Conferences
Poland: Archdiocese of Krakow
Syria: Patriarch of Antiochia
Virgin Islands: Diocese of St. Thomas