Catholic missionary congregations

Work of Catholic missionaries acknowledged

The display of the work of the missionaries and their profiles were an eye-opener for visitors and also members of the University community.

The founding congregations of DWU are the Society of Divine Word Missionaries or simply the “SVD”, which is the abbreviation of their Latin name Societas Verbi Divini and the Holy Spirit Sisters, who are formally known as the “Missionary Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit" which in Latin is Servae Spiritus Sancti and go by the abbreviation “SSpS”.