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Photos: Claretians ordain first missionary priest from Myanmar

Father Francisco Saw Jimmy Htwe, CMF, becomes the first Burmese national to be a Claretian missionary priest

July 17, 2022

Father Victor Sadaya, CMF, formator at the Claretian seminary in Quezon City, and a family member, assist in putting on the vestments of newly-ordained Father Francisco Saw Jimmy Htwe, CMF. (Photo by Jire Carreon)

The Claretian missionaries in the Philippines, also known as the Father Rhoel Gallardo Province of the Congregation of Missionaries, Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mark their 173rd Foundation Day on July 16, 2022, with the ordination to the priesthood of Francisco Saw Jimmy Htwe, CMF, the first Burmese national to be a Claretian, and Wigbert Papa, CMF, from the Philippines. (Photos by Jire Carreon)

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