New Head for Pontifical Mission

A New Head

The Pontifical Mission Society on the Philippines has a new head. None other than Fr. Peter M. Mesiona, msp. This was announced a t the pontifical Mission Annual Meeting in Tagaytay last July.

Merger

Not only that, from now on the Philippine Bishops’ own missionary group known as the Episcopal Commission on Mission will merge, so to speak, with the pope’s group. Fr. Mesiona will head the two groups in the Philippines.

International Meeting

The 2nd Assembly of the Animators was held here in the Philippines last September 22-26, an honor for the Philippines which now has more than 2, 000 missionaries abroad and 5 million Catholic migrants who should be the missionaries for the Asia for the new millennium