Members of The Congregation
Members of the congregation include:
- Thaddeus Amat y Brusi (1810-1878), first bishop of Los Angeles
- P. Bertholon (1689-1757), physician
- E. Bore (died 1878), orientalist
- P. Collet (1693-1770), writer on theology and ethics
- Armand David (1826-1900), Chinese missionary and traveller
- Jean-Claude Faveyrial (1813–1893), French historian and author of the first book on the history of Albania
- Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier (1837-1905), missionary to China, and Vicar Apostolic of North Chihli (1898-1905)
- Frederic Gehring (1903-1998), missionary to China and decorated chaplain during the Guadalcanal Campaign
- Joseph Lilly, translator of the Greek New Testament into English in 1946.
- Cardinal Stéphanos II Ghattas (1920-2009), Patriarch emeritus of Alexandria for the Copts
- J. de la Grive (1689-1757), geographer
- Évariste Régis Huc (1813-1860), missionary and traveller
- Teodorico Pedrini (1671-1746), Chinese missionary and musician
- Stafford Poole (1936-), historian
- Cardinal Franc Rode (1934-), Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
- Joseph Rosati (1789-1843), first bishop of St. Louis, Missouri
- David M. O'Connell (1955-), Bishop of Trenton
- Aba Shlimon (aka Pere Desire Solomon, Khwaja Shlimon) late 19th c. Urmia, Persia, an Assyrian scholar
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