This is the United Kingdom Web Site of the Society of Missionaries of Africa.
We are Catholic priests and brothers
who live in communities to be at the service of the people of Africa.
Our membership hails from four continents (plus one Australian!), including an increasing proportion of Africans.

We are popularly known as "the White Fathers" because traditionally we wore distinctive white robes, as seen below in a 1929 photograph of Navrongo Church. The white robes reflected our origins in Algiers where Cardinal Lavigerie founded the Society in 1868.