Fr. Peter Shaba

Fr. Peter Shaba, SMA

Fr. Peter Shaba is the parochial vicar here in St. John Paul II Parish.  He arrived here in August 2020 after serving over five years in St. Joseph Parish in Bridgton and St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Norway.

Fr. Peter is a member of the Society of African Missions (SMA), an international community of missionaries founded in France in 1856.  Their first evangelization is the proclamation of the Gospel to those who have not yet heard, especially the poor and most abandoned. SMA missionaries first established a presence in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century when Fr. Ignatius Lissner, SMA, a native of Alsace in France, came to North America to raise funds for the SMA’s missions in Africa. He quickly saw America as a potential mission territory.