After beginnings in Swakopmund and opening mission stations in Kavango and Owamboland the sisters took over the administration of Roman Catholic Hospital next to the cathedral in Windhoek. The incorporation of a large group of Namibian sisters into our Congregation necessitated a larger monastery that was built on dry, hilly land in Nubuamis. In the year 2000 the new Priory House with novitiate was blessed.
An urgent need for new missionaries arose in South West Africa, now Namibia, after World War I. The only female congregation at that time, the Franciscan Sisters of Nonnenwerth, was requested by their Generalate to leave “Maria Hilf Hospital” in Windhoek, now called “Roman Catholic Hospital”.
In 1920 the first Missionary Benedictine Sisters arrived in Swakopmund at the coast and soon they opened mission stations in the rural areas of Kavango and Owamboland. In 1923 they took over the administration of the Roman Catholic Hospital in Windhoek. From a predominantly German community the priory developed into an intercultural community with many good local vocations, ready to serve as missionaries in other parts of the world.
Today the more than 100 Sisters of different nationalities serve in 14 mission stations in the fields of education, health care, pastoral work, farming, catechism and first evangelization, apostolate of prayer, parish work, hostel management and feeding.
