The Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord
When Archbishop Costantini arrived in China as the First Apostolic Delegate to the country, he was already aware that evangelization to people of this nation of splendid ancient civilization could not be easily done without wisdom and true conviction. Though foreign missionaries had been carrying out their evangelization work in China for over three hundred years, Christianity never took root in the country. Thus, Archbishop Costantini wanted to localize the Church for both the mainland Chinese and overseas Chinese. On 4th January 1927, he applied to the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith (the present Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) for the establishment of the first Chinese Catholic religious order, the Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord (CDD).
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