PIME: A Global
Missionary Presence
The Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) is a worldwide Catholic missionary organization dedicated to spreading the Gospel and serving needy communities. Founded in 1850 in Italy, PIME has grown into an international missionary congregation in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Get Start Now arrow_forward
PIME’s Mission
& Global Reach
PIME missionaries—priests, brothers, and laypeople—commit their lives to evangelization, education, healthcare, and social development in remote and marginalized regions. Their mission is to bring faith, hope, and transformation to communities that have little access to the Gospel or essential services. Get Start Now arrow_forward

Where PIME Works Around the World

Asia | Africa | The Americas | Oceania

PIME Animation & Vocation Promotion in India

In India, PIME plays a crucial role in vocation promotion and missionary animation. The institute actively encourages young people to discern their calling and participate in the mission of the Church.

Join the Mission!

PIME welcomes young men discerning a call to priesthood or religious life (Brotherhood), as well as laypeople who want to contribute to mission work.

Who we are

Founded by Bishop Angelo Ramazzotti in 1850 as the Lombard Seminary for Foreign Missions, the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) was the first missionary institute to originate from Italy. The PIME missionaries are a society of apostolic life; a community of priests (who do not take vows, much like diocesan priests), brothers, and lay people who dedicate their lives entirely to the proclamation of the Gospel and humanitarian aid for people from different countries, with a preference for people who are marginalized both geographically and socially.

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Interested in being a PIME Missionary?

Called by Jesus’s final proclamation to “Go out and share the Good News with all people.” the Missionary Vocation is a unique one, and the PIME Missionary Vocation requires a sense of adventure all its own.
Currently, PIME has around 400 members with 5 associate members (priests of another order working with PIME) serving in 20 countries worldwide. Since 1850, PIME has sent more than 2,000 missionaries to different continents; among these missionaries, PIME can count 70 bishops, apostolic prefects and vicars. An international community, we list members from around the world among our fellow missionaries. In addition to these, PIME has given 19 martyrs, seven beatified, and one saint to the missions.

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