IBVM World Wide

IBVM World WideThe Institute of The Blessed Virgin Mary is an international congregation of Catholic vowed religious women. IBVM sisters can be found ministering across five continents. The General Leadership for the IBVM Loreto Branch is located at Casa Loreto in Rome, Italy. The Loreto Branch is organized into ten Provinces and one Region.

IBVM World Wide

Re-union 2003

Mary Wright IBVM, General Leader of the Irish Branch and Maria Bierer, General Leader of the North American Branch, sign the Decree of Re-union formally uniting these two Branches of the Institute to form one new Loreto Branch in September of 2003

In September of 2003 the North American and Irish Branches of the Institute formally merged and became one Institute, forming the new Loreto Branch.