Francis Patrick Nolan

Birth: 6 november 1934, United Kingdom

PhD History (University of Cambridge, 1977)

Catholic missionary priest, member of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa

Researcher of the Missionaries of Africa Historical Research Project (2005-)

Personal profile

Research interests : history of Christianity in Africa, history of the Missionaries of Africa

Region of research: East Africa

Period: nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Specialism: History of Christianity in Africa

Academic qualifications

PhD History

University: University of Cambridge

Title of dissertation: Christianity in Unyamwezi 1878-1928

Year: 1977

MA Modern History

University: University of Oxford

Teaching

Research Projects

The Missionaries of Africa in the Sudan: research completed in 2020.

A History of the Catholic Church in Mwanza (Tanzania): research completed in 2019

The Missionaries of Africa in Kenya: research completed in 2018.

The departure of the Missionaries of Africa from Mozambique: research completed in 2017.

The White Fathers in Colonial Africa, 1919-1939: research completed in 2012.

A History of Christianity in Unyamwezi (Tanzania): research completed in 1975

Catechist Research Gaba - Amecea- Feres: research completed in 1972. Read More

Publications

Books (monographs)

Nolan, Francis. The Missionaries of Africa in the Sudan. Hajj Yousif: Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), 2020.

Nolan, Francis. Historia ya ujio wa imani ya kanisa katoliki jimbo kuu Mwanza. Mwanza: Jimbo Kuu la Katoliki Mwanza, 2019.

Nolan, Francis. The Church in Kenya and the Missionaries of Africa. Nairobi: Missionaries of Africa, 2018.

Nolan, Francis. The departure of the Missionaries of Africa (The White Fathers) from Mozambique in 1971. Society of the Missionaries of Africa History Series n° 17. Roma: Missionari d'Africa, 2017.

Nolan Francis Les Pères Blancs entre les deux guerres mondiales Histoire des Missionnaires d’Afrique (1919-1939). Traduit par Raphael Deillon. Karthala, Paris 2015.

Nolan, Francis. The White Fathers in Colonial Africa, 1919-1939. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2012.

Nolan, Francis. Lavigerie Shujaa wa Utume Habari za maisha yake kwa kifupi. Imetafsiriwa na Peter Dias. Tabora: T.M.P. Book Department, 1992.

Nolan, Francis. Mission to the Great Lakes The White Fathers in Western Tanzania 1878-1978. Tabora: T.M.P. Book Department, 1978.

Books (critical edition of sources)

Duchêne, Lucien. The White Fathers from the origins of the Society to the death of the Founder 1868-1892 Volume 2: 1879-1892. Edited and translated by Francis Nolan. Society of the Missionaries of Africa History Series n° 24. Roma: Missionari d'Africa, 2023.

Duchêne, Lucien. Les Pères Blancs depuis l'origine de la Société jusqu'à la mort du Fondateur 1868-1892 2e partie: 1879-1892. Édité par Francis Nolan. Société des Missionnaires d'Afrique Série Historique n° 24. Roma: Missionari d'Africa, 2023.

Duchêne, Lucien. The White Fathers from the origins of the Society to the death of the Founder 1868-1892 Volume 1: 1868-1879. Edited and translated by Francis Nolan. Society of the Missionaries of Africa History Series n° 23. Roma: Missionari d'Africa, 2021.

Duchêne, Lucien. Les Pères Blancs depuis l'origine de la Société jusqu'à la mort du Fondateur 1868-1892 1ère partie: 1868-1879. Édité par Francis Nolan. Société des Missionnaires d'Afrique Série Historique n° 23. Roma: Missionari d'Africa, 2021.

Chapter in books

Nolan, Francis. "Origins and development in Eastern Africa." in Shorter, Aylward, and Eugene Kataza, eds. Missionaries to Yourselves: African Catechists Today. London: Geoffrey Chapman Publishers, 1972.