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Josephites may refer to a number of autonomous Catholic religious movements, including the Josephites of Belgium, Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill, Society of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Josephite Fathers, or members of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart. The oldest of these is the Josephites of Belgium, a Congregation of Pontifical Right for clergymen, whose primary apostolate is the education of children who might not otherwise be able to go to school. They also have a missionary past in Africa. They were founded at the Diocese of Ghent by Canon Constant van Crombrugghe in 1817. They are primarily active in the Congo, Belgium, England and the United States. Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill, otherwise known as Saint Joseph's Society for Foreign Missionaries or the Mill Hill Missionaries, is a society of apostolic life for Catholic missionaries, founded by Herbert Alfred Vaughan in 1892. The Society was originally based at Saint Joseph's College at Mill Hill, in northern London, but the school closed in 2006. Members of this group would form the Society of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart in 1893, a Roman Catholic Society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men, founded by Father John Slattery. Formed in 1871 by a group of priests in the English Foreign Mission Society of Saint Joseph, the Josephite Fathers and Brothers, formally known as Saint Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart, were established specifically to minister to newly freed slaves in the United States after the American Civil War. They are closely associated with Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill, and are also sometimes known as the Mill Hill Missionaries, although they reorganized in 1893 to create the Unites States-based institution. They continue to minister to African-Americans in the United States, and have also established a Josephite house of spiritual formation in Nigeria, a source of a number of Josephite vocations.

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