About Our Missions:

The Passionist Community opened its mission in Mandeville, West Indies in 1995. That year Fr. Neil Tiedemann, C.P. was ordained as Bishop of the Mandeville Diocese. Fr. Richard Award, C.P. is currently Pastor of St Elizabeth’s Parish in Kingston. In one of the poorest and most difficult areas of the city, he is most concerned with caring for the poor, providing food and education programs, and programs for the youth. In the Diocese, along with caring for the Cathedral Parish and many other programs, there is  the Catholic College of Mandeville, founded particularly for the education of teachers. 

In Honduras the major institution supported by the Passionist Missions is St. Benedict’s Clinic in the high mountains. The clinic serves over 45,000 a year with modern medical care. 

Fr. Rick Frechette, C.P. heads the missions in Haiti . Fr Rick, a Passionist Priest and Medical Doctor, is Director of a children’s Hospital and several medical clinics in Haiti. He also founded The St. Luke Foundation for Haiti which grew out of the programs of Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs. As the young people of NPFS programs grew into adulthood, they sought to create a completely organic and native organization with the goal of propelling change and progress in Haiti. and is in charge of a large orphanage and a number of small schools, bringing basic education to the children in their own areas.

The extensive mission brings hope to an extremely poor and neglected region in the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere .