Founder
Fr. Alvin A. Illig, CSP, established the Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association as an apostolate arm of the Paulist Fathers. Fr. Illig served as the director from 1977 to 1991 as well as the first Executive Director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization from 1977 to 1982. In 1983 Pope John Paul II awarded Fr. Alvin Illig with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontiface medal for his excellent service to the Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization. During his time at PNCEA, Fr. Illig focused on evangelization to inactive Catholics and the unchurched Americans. At the funeral of Fr. Illig in 1991, Roger Cardinal Mahoney stated: “Father Alvin Illig is surely this country’s modern apostle of evangelization. No one has done more than him to revitalize a spirit of evangelization among Catholics in these United States."
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