Our History
The Institute offers theological education to the African religious men and women from different congregations here in East Africa. It started in **1967** with indigenous sisters (training only sisters from the Holy Spirit community), but later after the request of the Tanzanian Episcopal Conference (TEC) in **1969**, the Institute started offering theological studies to other African Sisters from other congregations since **1970**. In **2008** Religious Brothers were also invited.
By reading the signs of time and due to lack of enough priests and religious men and women it has become necessary to provide these theological studies also to laypeople in order to incorporate them in the work of evangelization (lay apostolate). Moreover, an increasing number of family breakdowns, unstable marriages, street children, and moral decadence among young people became a pulling force for us as facilitators of effective evangelization to expand the institute so that we can conduct various seminars and workshops to save the future church from doom.
A Word From Our Founder
On this special occasion of the Golden Jubilee of our Theological Pastoral Institute – Rauya, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the almighty God for His enduring protection for all of us, till this time. Certainly, my students have gone through this institute; and I, as one of the Alumnae who graduated and received Missio-Canonica in 1973; and thereafter served as the first African principal of this Institute from 1980 till 1991, rejoice greatly in my heart to be able to witness this joyous Golden Jubilee celebration.
At this age of my retirement, I’m exultantly admiring the marvelous changes as regards the progress of the Institute since its official foundation in 1970 till now and praise God for His generous blessings, especially for counting my worth to be numbered among those who studied here and also contributed some efforts for the upbringing of this institute.