Mother Teresa of Calcutta
FounderFounder of Missionaries of Charity
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta is the founder of Missionaries of Charity (1950)[1], an Indian non-profit working on elderly, healthcare, orphans & child care and faith-based service from Kolkata.
Missionaries of Charity
Missionaries of Charity is the religious congregation founded by Mother Teresa in Calcutta in 1950 to care for the destitute, sick, orphaned and dying. Run from its Mother House in Kolkata, it operates homes for the dying, orphanages, leprosy clinics and shelters across India and more than 130 countries.
Missionaries of Charity reports the following, on its own site:
- As of 2025, the Missionaries of Charity Sisters (founded by Mother Teresa in Calcutta in 1950) consisted of 5,076 members
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Kolkata
- Founded
- 1950
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “The Missionaries of Charity Sisters (Mother Teresa's Sisters or the Sisters of Mother Teresa, as many call us) is a religious community in the Catholic Church, founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta (now St. Teresa of Calcutta) in 1950 in Calcutta, India.” — Missionaries of Charity. Source
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