Connecting with Chile and Bolivia

Maryland Provincial Timothy B. Brown, SJ, (left) signs the new twinning agreement along with Chile Provincial Guillermo Baranda, SJ.

Nearly 70 years have passed since the arrival of Gustave Weigel, SJ, to Chile. Several years after he arrived in 1937 as a member of the Maryland-New York Province of the Society of Jesus, Father Weigel became dean of the School of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He soon proposed that the Chile Province send some scholastics to the United States to study theology.

Now, decades after those early years of working in Chile, the Maryland Province has renewed a formal twinning agreement with the Chilean Province. Connections between the two provinces have expanded significantly.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Andes, the Maryland Province has also established a formal twinning agreement with the Bolivia Province.

Visit the links below to learn more about the twinning agreements and about the growing relationship between the Maryland Province and those of Chile and Bolivia.

Chile

History of the Twinning Agreement

United in Mission as servants of Christ in the world

Historia del Acuerdo de Hermanamiento

Unidos en misión, como servidores de Cristo en el mundo

Maryland Jesuits in Chile

Jesuitas Chilenos que han estudiado en USA

Letter from John Henry, SJ

Bolivia

Strategic Plan 2006 (pdf) espanol

United in Mission as servants of Christ in the world

Jesuit institutions in Bolivia