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Dates of Expansion

The year in which Salesian activity began in the various countries

 

YEAR COUNTRY
1846 Italy
1875 Argentina, France
1876 Uruguay
1881 Spain
1882 Brazil
1887 Austria [1], Chile, Great Britain
1888 Ecuador
1889 Switzerland
1890 Colombia
1891 Algeria [2], Belgium, Israel, Peru
1892 Mexico
1893 Poland
1894 Portogallo, Tunisia [3,] Venezuela
1896 Bolivia, Egypt, Paraguay, South African Rep., USA
1897 The Savior
1898 Antilles [4]
1901 Jamaica [5], Yugoslavia [6]
1903 Malta, Turkey
1906 Honduras, India [7], Macao
1907 Costa Rica, Mozambico [8], Panama
1910 China
1911 Congo (Zaire), Nicaragua
1913 Hungary
1916 Germany
1917 Cuba
1919 Ireland (Eire)
1922 Australia, San Marino [9]
1924 Canada [10],   Czechoslovakia [11]
1926 Japan
1927 Hong Kong, Thailand, Timor [12]
1928 Netherlands
1929 Guatemala, Morocco
1930 Sweden
1934 Lithuania, Dominican Republic
1935 Haiti
1936 Iran
1937 Vatican CITY
1938 Burma
1939 Libya [13]
1940 Albania [14]
1941 Laos [15] , Vietnam [16]
1943 Cape Verde
1947 Puerto Rico
1948 Syria
1951 Philippines [17]
1952 Lebanon Taiwan [18]
1953 Rwanda, Swaziland
1955 South Korea
1956 Sri Lanka
1959 Congo (Brazz.)
1965 Bhutan [19]
1966 Andorra
1969 Luxembourg
1970 Burundi
1971 Gabon
1972 Bahamas Guinea Equat. [20]
1976 Ethiopia
1979 Cameroon, Liberia
1980 Kenya, Lesotho, Senegal, Tanzania
1981 Angola, Benin, Costa D'Avorio, Madagascar, Mali, Papua N.Guinea, Samoa
1982 Nigeria, Togo, Sudan (Independence of South Sudan declared 2011)
1983 Zambia
1985 Indonesia
1986 Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone
1988 Uganda
1990 Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine [21]
1992 Ghana
1993 Burkina Faso
1994 Bulgaria, Cambogia, Central African Republic
1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chad, Eritrea, Solomon Islands, Malawi, Nepal, Zimbabwe
1998 Fiji, Namibia
1999 Pakistan
2000 Azerbaijan, Mauritius
2001 Mongolia, Kuwait
2005 Moldova
2009 Bangladesh
2010 New Zeland
2017 Gambia
2018 Malaysia

 

[1] First house in Trent, then under Austria (the first house in today's Austria was opened in 1901).

[2] Withdrew in 1976.

[3] Withdrew in 1964; returned with a presence in 1988.

[4] Withdrew in 1917. Returned in 1979.

[5] Withdrew in 1908.

[6] Yugoslavia until 1990; then divided into the States of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Federal Republic of Serbia.

[7] 1926: First Indian Province based in Calcutta.

[8] Until 1913, then from 1952 until today.

[9] Withdrew in 1964, returned in 1991.

[10] A parish in Toronto until 1934. Then regularly since 1951.

[11] Czechoslovakia until 1990; then divided into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

[12] Until 1929. Then from 1948 to today.

[13] Withdrew in 1946. Then returned with a presence in 1977.

[14] A parish in Urosevac. After the war the area was annexed to Yugoslavia. The Salesians retired in 1964. They returned in 1992.

[15] The Salesians replace the expelled French missionaries for two years.

[16] In the North until 1954, in the South until today.

[17] A house had been opened and remained active for a few months in 1912.

[18] Until 1956: then from 1963 until today.

[19] Expelled in 1982.

[20] Expelled in 1979; returned in 1980.

[21] In these States that belonged to the USSR, there were already informal Salesian presences, but only in 1990 were they made official.