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Milestones of St. Paul Province

  • 1968

    Erection of the Apostolic Exarchate of Sagar; Entrusting Sagar Exarchate to CMI Generalate with Msgr. Clemens CMI as the Exarch; Msgr. Clemens Thottungal CMI reached ; Sagar Installation of the Exarch.

  • 1969

    Inaugurating Sagar Exarchate by the Pro-Nuncio.

  • 1970

    Entrusting the Sagar Exarchate to Devamatha Province Thrissur.

  • 1972

    Msgr. Clemens P. Thottungal CMI (Superior & Exarch).

  • 1974

    Blessing of Carmel Ashram, Sagar by Msgr. Clemens.

  • 1975

    Fr. Diego Kodankandath CMI (First Mission Superior); Official inauguration of a station in Silwani.

  • 1977

    Erection of Sagar Exarchate into a Diocese with the First Bishop, Clemens CMI; Sagar Mission was given the status of Mission Region and was named St. Paul Region; Fr. Callistus Malieckal CMI (First Regional Superior).

  • 1978

    RDSS initiated IRDP project in Silwani with the help of KKS; First Aspirants’ House at Carmel Ashram Sagar.

  • 1979

    Starting Seva Sadan at Bamhori; Starting a Centre at Pratapgarh, in a Rented Room; Blessing of Christ Home, Guna.

  • 1980

    Starting Christ School, Guna. Our First School in M.P.

  • 1983

    Erecting Christ Home, Guna as a Canonical House 

  • 1986

    Starting Gurunivas, Tada 

  • 1987

    Entrusting Sagar Bhavan, Thrissur to St. Paul Province by Devamatha Province, Thrissur; Starting Vikas Maîtri Kendra, Searmau in a rented house

  • 1988

    Starting of St. Paul School Bhopal; Blessing and inauguration of Vinayalaya, Sagar

  • 1990

    Blessing of Navchetana Communication Centre, Bhopal

  • 1991

    St. Paul Region was raised to a Vice Province; Official handing over of Saccidananda Ashram, Narsinghpur to CMI St Paul Province, Bhopal and Entrusting the District of Narsinghpur to St. Paul Province by the diocese of Jabalpur

  • 1992

    Starting Sanjeevani Mission, Oosree, in a Rented House

  • 1993

    Blessing and inauguration of Christ Home Chapel, Guna; Purchasing of Land for Chavara Vidyapeeth School at Khairi

  • 1994

    Affiliation of Christ Sr. Sec. School Guna to CBSE, Our First CBSE School

  • 1995

    Laying of the Foundation stone for Chavara Vidyapeeth, Khairi, Narsinghpur

  • 1996

    The Vice-Province was elevated to a full-fledged Province; Conducting Mission Audit of St Paul Vice Province 

  • 1997

    Inauguration of CMI Centre, Vijaypur; Starting of Heights magazine by Navchetana; Blessing of CMI Bhavan, Padariya, Bhopal 

  • 1998

    Shifting of Scholasticate from Vinayalaya Sagar to Jabalpur

  • 1999

    Affiliation of St. Paul’s Co-Ed School, Bhopal to CBSE; Beginning of Kareli Mission

  • 2001

    Establishing of Christ College in Bhopal; Beginning Carmel Niketan, Jabalpur in the newly purchased building

  • 2002

    Laying of the Foundation stone for Carmel School, Kareli; Inaugurating Centre for Development and Harmony, Bhopal; Shifting of the Provincial House to Govind Garden.

  • 2003

    Starting of Mission Station at Gadarwara; Presence of CMI Fathers in Lourdes Matha Church, Barkuhi (Archdiocese of Nagpur)

  • 2004

    Blessing of Chavara Bhavan, Khairi, Narsinghpur; Beginning of Bp Clemens School of Excellence at Bamhori

  • 2005

    Signing of the Contract for Parasia Mission with the Archdiocese of Nagpur; Starting of Sanjeevani Vidhyapeeth, Oosree.; Blessing and inauguration of Carmel School building at Kareli; Affiliation of Chavara Vidyapeeth Khairi to CBSE; VIth Provincial Chapter officially sanctioned the shifting of Provincial administration to Govind Garden and CMI house becomes CMI Provincial House

  • 2006

    Entrusting of Agragami Social Work Center, Surlakhapa (Archdiocese of Nagpur) to CMI St. Paul Province Bhopal

  • 2006

    Blessing of Yesu Ashram, Padariya, Bhopal

  • 2007

    Blessing of the Foundation stone of Sant Chavara National Academy, Chandametta; Blessing of School Building of Sanjeevani Vidhyapeeth, Oosree at the new site.

  • 2008

    Starting of Bishop Clemens School, Kundali, Bamhori 

  • 2011

    Blessing of Shantigiri Ashram Bhamodi, Chhindwara; Blessing of CMI Provincial House, Govind Garden, Bhopal; Shifting of Bp. Clemens School of Excellence to the present site

  • 2012

    Blessing of Aanchal, Bhopal; Blessing of Mission Centre at Gadarwara; Disposing of the Land at Vijaypur; Inauguration of new Kindergarten Block at Chirst School, Guna 

  • 2013

    Establishing of Chavara Dham, Budni 

  • 2014

    Entrusting of St Antony's Parish Church, Dwarakanagar, Bhopal to CMI Fathers; Canonization of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara

  • 2015

    Sant Samaroh: Thanksgiving Day by CMI-CMC in Bhopal; Starting of a new Mission station and its blessing at Aron, Guna; Purchasing of land at Harrai and Binaganj; CBSE affiliation of Sant Chavara National Academy, Chandametta 

  • 2016

    The great Amazon Mission: our legendary missionaries landed in Santarem, Brazil. Landing of First CMI Missionaries in Arunachal Pradesh and starting of Tuting Mission; Purchasing of land at Phulmar; Purchasing of land for Novitiate at Budni.

  • 2017

    Blessing of Asha Kiran; Haven of Hope, Bhamodi (Home for the Differently Abled); Blessing of Chavara Dham Inter-Province Novitiate, Budni; Beginning of Bp. Clemens Study Centre at Bamhori; Decision to relocate Christ College to Padariya.

  • 2018

    New administrative block built for Christ School, Guna.

  • 2019

    Beginning of Boleng Mission; Landing of Pioneering CMI Missionaries in Uganda; Blessing and inauguration of the newly built Scholasticate building -Carmel Niketan- at Jabalpur; Blessing of the renovated CMI Bhavan building at Padariya, for Christ College; Blessing of the newly built residence, Chavara Nivas at Chandametta; Up-grading of Sant Chavara National Academy to +2.

  • 2020

    Pioneering CMI Missionaries start residing  independently at  Kanyanda, Uganda; Erection of St. Joseph’s Catholic Parish at Kanyanda and entrusted it to the care of the CMIs.

  • 2021

    Blessing and Inauguration of First CMI House in Kanyanda, Uganda; Blessing and Inauguration of CMI House in Tuting and Boleng, Arunachal Pradesh; Administrative setup of RDSS Silwani was revamped and all the partners were given the possession of the Centres; Dwaraka Nagar Parish was entrusted back to the Archdiocese; Inauguration of yet another Mission Centre- CMI House Migging- in Arunchal Pradesh on 16 July 2021