Chita Che Zita Rinoyera (Holy Name Community) CZR Founded 1935 St Augustine’s Mission PO Penhalonga Mutare Zimbabwe Tel: Penhalonga 22217

Our Community was started in 1935 by Father Baker of the CR Fathers at Penhalonga, with Mother Isabella as the founder. The CZR Sisters were helped by CR Sisters (Liz and Lois), and later by OHP Sisters (especially Lila, Mary Francis, Joyce and Hannah). When they left, Sister Isabella was elected Mother.
Today the CZR Sisters work at the clinic and at the primary and secondary schools. Some do visiting and help teach the catechism. We make wafers for several dioceses, including Harare. Some of the Sisters look after the church, seeing to cleaning and mending of the church linen.
In 1982, half the Sisters and the novices left CZR and created another community at Bonda. Six months later, some of those Sisters in turn went to found Religious Life at Harare. In 1989, some of the Bonda community left to go to Gokwe and begin Religious Life there. So CZR has been the forerunner of three other communities in Zimbabwe.
Please pray that God may bless us.

Mother Isabella CZR
(Revd Mother, assumed office 12 December 1996)
Sister Mother Anna Maria CZR (Assistant Superior)

For further details, obtain a copy of
The Anglican Religious Communities Year Book