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Reports, memoranda, and questionnaires collected and compiled by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., secretary of the Association of the Members of the Episcopal Conference in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) principally about priestly formation in the constituent countries of Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia. The file includes the following documentation:
• Record of the Inter-territorial Episcopal Meeting held at St. Joseph’s, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-26 July 1961. Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. was the recording secretary.
• AMECEA: A review of the first seven years.
• Extracts from the address by President Julius Nyerere to the Maryknoll Sisters’ General Chapter, New York. 16 Oct. 1970.
• Memorandum on the financial support of local African Ordinaries. 23 Apr. 1971.
• ‘Vocations to the Priesthood, Brotherhood, and Sisterhood in Zambia. 1970. Some factors and considerations’ by R.E.S. Tanner.
• Discussion document on the future of missionary societies by Fr. J. Glynn MM.
• Tanzania Church Inquiry. Memorandum on the pastoral position of the Catholic Church in Tanzania.
• Memorandum of the Association of Religious superiors in Eastern Africa.
• ‘The Church serving Developing Countries’. Extracts by AMECEA from a report sent to a seminar in Rome organised by a group of religious institutes active in missionary work. 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Opening address by Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli (1910-1980), Secretary of the Congregation for Evangelization, to the ‘Serving Developing Countries’ Seminar in Rome, 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Agenda and position papers at the plenary meeting of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, Rome, 25-28 June 1968. Distributed by AMECEA.
• Prospectus of the Pastoral Institute of Eastern Africa in Kampala, Uganda (1969).
• Record of the AMECEA Study Conference held at the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Nairobi, Kenya, 14-21 Dec. 1973.

Copy report by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on the Livingstone-Barotseland Mission for Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Minister General. With a cover letter to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The report notes that the mission is intended to be raised to the status of a Prefecture. The report is divided into the following sections:
Territory
Population
Local Tribes and Languages
Towns
Government
Non-Catholic Missions
Other Sects
Religious Beliefs of the Europeans
Attitude towards Catholicism
Education in Barotseland and Livingstone
Historical Resume of Capuchin Endeavour
a. Livingstone
b. Barotseland
c. Early Mission Policy
d. Teachers and Catechists
e. Turn in the Tide
f. In the Lealui District
g. In the Senanga District
Material Grand Total
Mission Difficulties Summarised
Mission Prospects
Conclusion

Copy report on the Victoria Falls Prefecture, Northern Rhodesia, by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic, for Fr. Donatus von Welle OFM Cap., Minister General. With a copy cover letter outlining the general progress of the mission under the following headings:
I. General Statistics
Population: 380,000; Catholics: 524; Catechumens: 1,929.
II. Personnel
III. Stations
IV. Schools
The report encloses statistical forms re the personnel of both the Victoria Falls Mission and the Cape Town Vicariate in South Africa. The appendix includes a section titled: ‘Report on the Capuchin Quasi-Parishes in the Cape Town Vicariate’. The Victoria Falls mission stations are listed in the statistical form as: Livingstone; Sichili; Sancta Maria; Mankoya.

Letters of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (1905-1972). Correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Most of the correspondence relates to developments in the Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia and to a lesser extent in the Cape Province, South Africa. The subjects include: the arrival of Fr. Jerome MacQuillian OFM Cap. and Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia. (18 Aug. 1935); the establishment of the Lukulu Station in Barotseland. (1 Sept. 1935); Fr. Casimir Butler’s desire for chaplaincy work in Parow Parish, South Africa. (10 Dec. 1935); co-operation with the Holy Cross Sisters. (20 Dec. 1935); work on the Sancta Maria (Lukulu) training school and the need for each Rhodesian Mission Station to have spiritual books for ‘retreats and ordinary reading’; arrangements for the arrival of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. and Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (5 May 1936); the establishment of a Prefecture for the Barotseland Mission (13 July 1936); enclosing a copy of the annual report on the Irish Capuchin Mission in Northern Rhodesia. (28 July 1936); the appointment of Fr. Killian as Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls. (11 Aug. 1936); Fr. Killian’s investiture as Prefect Apostolic (25 Nov. 1936); negotiations with the Paris Missionaries regarding the limits of the Sancta Maria Mission at Lukulu. (1 Jan. 1937); enclosing a copy of the 1937-8 report for the Victoria Falls Prefecture. (14 Sept. 1938); the boundaries of the Parow and Athlone parishes, Cape Town, South Africa. (6 Nov. 1939); the health of Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap. (9 Nov. 1939); an outbreak of the bubonic plague at Sancta Maria Mission and the dangers of transferring priests from Europe to South Africa due to the U-Boat threat (18 Mar. 1940); the proposed new status for the Irish Capuchin houses in the Cape Province, South Africa. (13 Oct. 1940); the position of interned ‘alien priests’ in Northern Rhodesia (25 Apr. 1941); the arrival of Polish refugees in Livingstone. (12 Aug. 1941); the ill-health of Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia (5 June 1942); the provision of doctors in Catholic Mission Centres. (23 June 1944); the Katima Muliho mission station. (11 Dec. 1944); copy report on the state of the Northern Rhodesia mission sent to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. (28 Jan. 1945); a proposal to circulate a local mission magazine. (19 May 1945); the jubilee letters of Fr. Phelim O’Shea and Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon (24 June 1945); extending an invitation to the Irish Sisters of Charity to establish a ‘foundation for coloured work in this Prefecture’ (31 Dec. 1948); the pressing need for more priests to be sent to the Northern Rhodesian Mission (28 Aug. 1949); the arrival of Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. and Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. (22 Nov. 1949); on the need for priests to take ‘sociological courses’ before departing for Africa. Fr. Killian wrote ‘I am becoming more and more convinced that not by Baptisms alone is Africa going to be converted and that priests must be thoroughly versed in sociological principles. How can anyone keep the Commandments in a modern African compound hut?’ (11 Feb. 1952).

Letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Cork, from Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, asking him to convey his thanks to the Father Mathew Players in Cork for putting on a pantomime in aid of the Capuchin missions in Africa. Fr. Killian writes: ‘You have helped supply us with the funds that put up stations, churches and schools and their furnishing. So your loyal assistance in the missions of Barotseland by solid buildings which will yet be the centres of a Catholic country’.

Notes by Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. re clothing and supplies which are needed for missionary work in Northern Rhodesia. The file includes several lists outlining the requirements. Fr. Killian notes that Monsignor Bruno Wolnick SJ ‘says we can get help for all of the above articles from the “Peter Claver Society”. Dublin Address: 49 North Great George’s Street’.

Report on the Prefecture Apostolic of Victoria Falls by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic and Regular Superior.
The report in divided into the following sections:

1. Initial Progress and History of the Mission
   First bush-stations
   Education
   Prefecture
   Further progress
   War Years, 1939-45
   Mission Policy
2. Adjoining Territory
3. Statistical Information arranged under the following headings:
   a. Livingstone
   b. Lealui
   c. Mongu
   d. Population
   e. Tribes
   f. Local governing structures
4. Protestant Missionary Influence
5. Government Schools
6. Attitude of the Colonial and Local Governments
7. Numbers of Catholics
8. Expenses
9. Conversions
10. Seat of the Ecclesiastical Superior
11. Number of Mission Stations
12. Government Subsidies
13. Missionary Personnel
14. Prospects for Vocations
15. Catechists
16. Foundations of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
17. Clerical Seminaries
18. Catholic Schools
19. Confraternities and Sodalities
    The final section of the report is titled: ‘Mission difficulties summarised’ and outlines the prospects for the future success of missionary work in the Prefecture. An appendix contains a brief report on missionary work in the Eastern Caprivi Strip.