The
Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary are happy to announce
that Sister Georgeanne Marie Donovan has been elected Congregational
Leader for the next seven years.
Sr.
Georgeanne Marie was bom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February
5, 1949. She entered the Congregation in Bedford, Massachusetts,
USA in 1968 and made her first profession on December 8, 1970. She
was missioned to Jamaica in January 1971 and she served in various
ministries at Hansen Home (government leprosarium) until beginning
her theological studies at the Catholic Seminary and University
of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica in 1974. After graduation
in 1978, Georgeanne Marie spent the next 18 years engaged in pastoral
ministry, lay formation, catechetical/ liturgical coordination and
diocesan administration in the Diocese of Montego Bay, Jamaica.
In 1995, she received her MA in Adult Christian Community Development
from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Georgeanne Marie served
on the Provincial Council of the North American Province from 1995-2001
and, after six months as interim-provincial, served as provincial
from 2002-2006. After participating in a sabbatical program and
a biblical institute in Jerusalem, she was offered the position
as chancellor for the Diocese of San Bernardino, California where
she presently serves.
