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Maria Nirmala Joshi (23 July 1934 – 23 June 2015) was an Indian religious sister who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity and expanded the movement overseas. [1] [2] After taking over the charity following Mother Teresa's death in 1997, Nirmala expanded the organisation's reach to 134 countries by ...
Maria Nirmala Joshi (23 July 1934 – 23 June 2015) was an Indian religious sister who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity and expanded the movement overseas. After taking over the charity following Mother Teresa's death in 1997, Nirmala expanded the organisation's reach to 134 countries by opening ...
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Jun 24, 2015 · Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of the Roman Catholic order Missionaries of Charity, died Tuesday in Kolkata, India, where the organization is based. She was 81.
Jun 23, 2015 · Catholics around the world are mourning the death of Sister Nirmala Joshi, who passed away Tuesday. Sister Nirmala succeeded Blessed Teresa of Calcutta as superior general of the Missionaries of ...
Jun 23, 2015 · June 23, 2015 at 4:07 p.m. EDT. Mother Teresa, right, blesses her successor, Sister Nirmala, in 1997. (Saurabh Das/AP) Sister Nirmala Joshi, the Indian nun who replaced Mother Teresa as head of ...
Sister Nirmala served in that capacity from 1997 until 2009. Nirmala Joshi, the daughter of an Indian army officer who emigrated from Nepal, was born on July 23, 1934, in the city of Ranchi in Bihar, India. Although she was born into a family of Brahmins, the traditional Hindu priestly caste, she felt called to Christianity as a young adult and ...
Jun 23, 2015 · A Time profile said when Nirmala Joshi’s parents, high-caste Hindu Brahmins from Nepal, put their daughter into a Catholic missionary school in the 1940s, their intention was just for her to pick up some English and arithmetic. For that privilege, Nirmala’s father, a devout Hindu, was willing to have her participate in Christian prayer ...
