Usually means: Priests in colonial African missions.
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▸ noun:  The White Fathers, officially known as the Missionaries of Africa and abbreviated MAfr, are a Roman Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right (for Men) founded in 1868 by then Archbishop of Algiers Charles-Martial Allemand-Lavigerie.


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