The Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity (SHN) is an Anglican religious order for women founded in 1882 by Charles Chapman Grafton

SSJE The Society of St John the Evangelist (SSJE) is an Anglican religious order for men. The members live under a rule of life and, at profession, make monastic vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience. SSJE was founded in 1866 at Cowley, Oxford, Eng ...

. Three sisters and six novices of the Society of St. Margaret (SSM), associated with the Cowley Fathers, left SSM in 1882 to establish the new order. Sister Ruth Margaret Vose (1826-1910) was its first mother superior. The order was incorporated in Wisconsin on May 29, 1921, and remains active in the

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. Sister Abigail assumed office as reverend mother in 2012. The sisterhood's bishop visitor is the Right Rev. Matthew Gunter, Bishop of Fond du Lac.

Houses, daughter houses, and parochial ministries

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(1888-1983), motherhouse 1888-1906 *

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at the Zabriskie Memorial Church of St. John the Evangelist *

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(1909-1965) at

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at S. Clement's Church, the Church of the Annunciation, and St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Roxborough *

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(1952-2013) *

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Fond du Lac () is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 44,678 at the 2020 census. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Fond du Lac United States metrop ...

Convent of the Holy Nativity (1905-1999), burned 2019, demolished 2021 *

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, Green Bay *

Ripon, Wisconsin Ripon is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 7,733 at the 2010 census. The city is surrounded by the Town of Ripon. Ripon is home to the Little White Schoolhouse, the commonly recognized birthplace of ...

, Bethlehem-by-the-Lake, 1999—present

References

Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity
from A. Parker Curtiss, ''History of the Diocese of Fond du Lac and Its Several Congregations'' (1925)

External links

Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity Records, 1882-1976New Mission in West Virginia for Sisters of the Holy Nativity
(1999)
150 Years on George Street
2019 parish history of S. Stephen's Church (Providence, Rhode Island)
Convent of the Holy Nativity
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