Don Bosco Missionaries in Northeast India has reached a milestone of 100 years in the service of the poor and the marginalized.
On July 21, 1921, Father Paul Albera, the then Superior General of Don Bosco in Italy, accepted to serve in the North-East. In 1922, eleven Don Bosco missionaries of different nationalities arrived in Northeast India. They arrived in Guwahati on January 12, 1922, on their way to Shillong, the then capital of Assam. On January 13, 1922 they reached Shillong and took up their assignments there.
At present there are three Provinces in the North East: Guwahati (established in 1959), Dimapur (1981), and Shillong (2012).
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