Nancy Wellmeier , SND
Nancy Wellmeier, SND
Sr. Nancy Wellmeier was born in 1942 in Dayton, Ohio, USA and attended Julienne High School where she met the Sisters of Notre Dame. She entered the Congregation in 1960, and was privileged to finish her studies (B.A. in Spanish, Theology and Secondary Education) before her first mission.
She taught for two years at St. Helen's school in Dayton and four years at Carroll Catholic High School, also in Dayton, OH where she was head of the modern language department. After final vows in 1968, she was missioned to Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico, and worked in parish ministry there from 1971 to 1973. She then joined the SNDs in Arizona, and then spent a short time serving in Hispanic parishes in youth ministry, pastoral ministry and adult education.
Sr. Nancy obtained an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology at Arizona State University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in the same in 1994. From 1994 until 2002, she was the US Catholic Bishops' Conference national coordinator of pastoral care for the Maya people of Guatemala, refugees in the United States, visiting their communities around the country. At the same time, she was coordinator of the Spanish section of the Phoenix Diocese Kino Institute for Pastoral Theology.
Sr. Nancy was elected to our Congregational Leadership Team in 2002. |
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