About Us

WHO ARE WE?

The Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP) is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right for mission ad gentes. It received its pontifical right status on January 6, 2009, from the Vatican's Dicastery for Evangelization. Having been established by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the MSP serves as the official and chief missionary arm of the Catholic Church of the Philippines. Since its inception in 1965, the MSP has worked on five continents or twelve countries. The MSP has missions to Asia in the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. It serves Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Tuvalu in Oceania. In Europe, it is present in the Netherlands and Belgium. In North America, it is present in the United States of America and Canada. In the Middle East, it is present in the United Arab Emirates and Oman. 

The MSP envisions this gift of faith in Christ to have been lived and shared in love by all, especially the people in Asia. Our missionary engagement involves the incarnation of the Church in Asia wherein non-Christian believers abound; supportive evangelical service to the young churches until they attain ecclesial maturity; auxiliary apostolic ministry for the renewal of churches; and finally, instilling missionary consciousness to the Filipino migrants, making them partners and instruments of missionary vocation.