Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa at a pro-life meeting in 1986 in Bonn, West
Germany
Religion Roman Catholic
Order Sisters of Loreto
(1928–1948)
Missionaries of Charity
(1950–1997)
Nationality Indian
Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
26 August 1910
Skopje, Ottoman Empire
Died 5 September 1997 (aged 87)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Senior posting
Title Superior General
Period in office 1950–1997
Successor Sister Nirmala Joshi, M.C.
Honored in Catholic Church
(Missionaries of Charity and India)
Beatified 19 October 2003, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India
Feast 5 September
Patronage World Youth Day
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