ABOUT US
Learn about the Sisters of St. Michael The Archangel (the Michaelian family), our mission, spirit, and character
Our Mission
To instil godliness through compassionate care, service, justice and education, creating a lasting legacy of faith in society.
Our Spirit
The Congregation follows evangelical counsels of Chastity, Obedience and Poverty, with Saint Michael as patron, focusing on evangelisation.
Character
While evangelization is the apostolic spirit of the sisters of St. Michael the Archangel, Inculturation shall be their vehicle of operation.
OUR ADMINISTRATION
The affairs of the congregation are directed by the Superior General, who is assisted by four council members. The Superior and the council members are elected at the end of every General Chapter, which takes place once every six years.
Members of the Council are Rev. Sr. Regina Oke (Superior General), Rev. Sr. Anthonia Ojo (Vicar-General), Rev. Sr.Marcelina Bamisaye (Council Member), Rev. Sr. Elizabeth Aina (Council Member) and Rev. Sr. Celina Adegun (Council Member).
History of the Congregation
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Michael the Archangel was founded by Most Rev. Dr. Michael Olatunji Fagun, the then Catholic Bishop of Ekiti on the 6th of November 1986. The reasons for the foundation of the Sisters of St. Michael the Archangel are twofold: first, for the purpose of evangelization through enculturation since the best missionaries to evangelize a people are those with full knowledge and cultural background of the evangelized; second, for the purpose of bringing the faith into the fibre of the people’s existence so as to form the fabric of their life, with the faith well-woven into their culture, from where a new Christian culture would emerge.
The Congregation began with 10 indigenes as the foundation members with the responsibility of formation reposed on the congregation of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus sisters because of cultural affiliation. This was successfully accomplished under the guidance and supervision of Rev. Mother Mary Clare Idahosa, who diligently provided personnel for formation. The postulate and Novitiates are both situated in Maria Assumpta Hospital premises in the Catholic Diocese of Ekiti, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The Generalate is situated beside St. Fidelis Catholic Church, Ado Ekiti.
The first General Chapter of the congregation took place in 1995 at Saints Peter and Paul Major Seminary where the first Superior General, Rev. Sr. Catherine Ajoke Oluyemo was elected with others as counselors. Their tenure was five years. Within those five years, on the 22nd of February 1999, the Congregation was canonically erected at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Ado-Ekiti by the Father Founder, Most Rev. M.O. Fagun, and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ibadan province, Archbishop Felix Alaba Job after a canonical approval from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in Rome. This has been followed by other four very successful chapters.
Within twenty-five years we have witnessed tremendous growth in every aspect of our existence.
We have been blessed with a group of lay people who share our life and spirituality and who also support the mission, apostolate, and activity of the Congregation. They are called the Michaelian family.
