Societas a Sancto Paulo Apostolo | |
Abbreviation | SSP (post-nominals) |
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Nickname | Paulines |
Formation | 20 August 1914 |
Founder | Giacomo Alberione |
Founded at | Alba, Piedmont, Italy |
Type | Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right for Men |
Headquarters | Motherhouse: Via Alessandro Severo 58, 00145 Rome, Italy |
Members | 828 members (493 priests) as of 2020[1] |
Superior General | Domenico Soliman[1] |
Ministry | Social communication work |
Parent organization | Roman Catholic Church |
Website | paulus |
The Society of Saint Paul (Latin: Societas a Sancto Paulo Apostolo) abbreviated SSP and also known as the Paulines, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded on 20 August 1914 at Alba, Piedmont in Italy by Giacomo Alberione and officially approved by the Holy See on 27 June 1949. Its members add the nominal letters SSP. after their names to indicate membership in the congregation.[2]