The FSSP In Numbers
Brief history
• 18 July 1988: Founded as a clerical society of apostolic life
• Liturgical books used: Roman Missal, Ritual, Pontifical, Martyrology and Breviary in force in 1962
• July 1988: Private audiences with Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger
• 18 October 1988: Erected as an institute of pontifical right by the Holy See
• Easter 1990: Cardinal Ratzinger visits the motherhouse (in Wigratzbad, Bavaria) and offers Mass in the Traditional rite
• 1995: first personal parish entrusted to the FSSP
• 12 September 1999: Pope John Paul II blesses the corner stones and crucifixes for the two new FSSP seminaries in Europe and in America
• 8 October 1999; 20 October 2001: the Superior General delivers an address at the Synods of Bishops in Rome
• December 2000; June 2002; June 2005; May 2008: Cardinal Castrillon-Hoyos, President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission and Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, comes to bless the new Saint Peter Seminary and to ordain FSSP priests
• 29 June 2003: Definitive approval of the Constitutions by the Holy See
• 22 February 2007: Foundation of the Confraternity of Saint Peter, a society which gathers those who are attached to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter and who wish to support its charism through prayers and sacrifices
• March 2008: The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter is granted a personal parish in Rome
• 6 July 2009: Private audiences with Pope Benedict XVI
Members today
• Total: 407 (incl. 238 incardinated)
• Priests: 244
o 228 incardinated
o 11 incorporated ad annum
o 2 associated
o 3 postulants
• Deacons: 10
• Non-deacons seminarians (including postulants): 153
• Average age of members: 37 years
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