The Reverend Ignatius Francis Lissner SMA | |
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| Native name | Ignace Francious Lissner |
| Church | Catholic Church |
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| Ordination | 1891 |
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| Born | April 6, 1867 France |
| Died | August 7, 1948 (aged 81) Tenafly, New Jersey |
| Buried | Mount Carmel Cemetery, Tenafly, New Jersey |
| Nationality | French |
Ignatius Francis Lissner, S.M.A. (Alsatian: Ignace Francious Lissner, French: Ignace François Lissner; April 6, 1867 – August 7, 1948) was a French-born Catholic priest who was instrumental in developing the ministry of the Church in the United States to the African-American population.
He established in the US a province of the missionary society to which he belonged, the Society of African Missions, and was also instrumental in founding the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, the third-oldest surviving congregation of Black nuns in America, as well as a racially integrated seminary, St. Anthony's Mission House. He was called the "Apostle of the Negro" at the time of his death.