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General Comminsariats

General Commissariats

Where there is the hope that a new Province of the Order might be founded in future, and where there are at least three canonically established houses and thirty solemnly professed members, the Prior General, with the consent of his Council, following a careful examination of the situation and having consulted the Prior Provincial and his Council as well members concerned, can found a General Commissariat.

General Commissariat of "La Vergine Bruna", Naples

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This Commissariat was only recently erected under this title. But it has inherited a tradition which goes back to 1524 when the Naples convent of Carmine Maggiore, even though remaining a community of the Neapolitan Province, nevertheless was withdrawn from that Province's jurisdiction and placed immediately under the Prior General. With the passage of time, this same convent acquired several granges (by 1617 it owned fifteen).

General Commissariat of Portugal

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In 1251 some religious from Mount Carmel, with the help of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, founded a convent in the city of Moura. In 1397 Blessed Nuño Alves Pereira, the Sargent of Artillery, gave the Carmelites, whom he got to know and admire during his campaigns, a magnificent convent and church which he had built in Lisbon in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He asked to be received as a lay brother in that same convent. In 1493 the Province of Lusitania (Portugal) was established.

General Commissariat of The Philippines

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In 1957 the Prior Provincial of the Province of the Netherlands, Fr. Brocard Meyer travelled to the Philippines looking for opportunities to establish the Carmelite Order in these islands. Eventually, the Province accepted an invitation from the Bishop of Dumaguete to take responsibility for the northern part of the diocese on Negros Island. Frs. Richard Vissers, Wirenfried Viesters and Theodulph Vraaking founded the Carmelite presence in the Philippines on March 16, 1958.
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