KATOLİK ASSOMPTiONİSTLER TARİKATI VE TÜRKİYE
CATHOLIC ASSOMPTIONIST ORDER AND TURKEY

Summary/Abstract: At the second part of the 19'h century the Catholic Church encouraged its members to create new organizations and religious orders for organizing the missionary activities in a more systematical and modern way. These orders shared the certain part of the world among them for their activities. The Assomptionist order, which is the subject of this article, with the promotion of the Church, chose the East European countries including Turkey. The main task of the order is the integration of the Eastern Churches to the Catholic Church. Emmanuel d'Alzon who is the founder of the order, is a French bishop. In order to realize its main task, the order, which has been backed by the French Catholics, uses all sorts of press and the media facilities and the educational activities. They also organize pilgrimages to religious sites. The Assomptionists organized most of these activities in different cities of Turkey over the long years. In this article we tried to analyze the historical development of this order, its founder and its activities, especially in connection with Turkey.

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