The Association for the Propagation of the Faith (APF) assists
each and every one of the Catholic Church's 1,062
mission dioceses and territories to provide pastoral care and
preach the Gospel effectively.
It was founded in Lyons, France, in 1822 by a young French woman,
Pauline Jaricot. She began by persuading local working people to
support the missions by giving a farthing a week. A century later,
when the organisation was established in almost every country of
the world, Pope Pius XI made it the official mission-funding
society for the Catholic Church.
The APF works in England and Wales with the Mill Hill Missionary
Society, the only major missionary society to have been formed in
England. Mill Hill was one of the first societies to introduce lay
missionaries, and its priests, lay brothers and associates work in
27 countries and every continent.
For more information about APF at Corpus Christi please
contact the pairsh office.
