Most Rev. Fr. Wilhelm Steckling OMI, the Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, will visit Sri Lanka from 30th November to 24th December 2009. This will be his second visit to Sri Lanka, his earlier visit being in 2001, said OMI Superior Rev. Bro. John Gilbert.

Fr. Steckling was born in Germany on 23rd April 1947. He joined the Oblates, and made his first Religious Profession on 1st May 1967. He was ordained a Priest on 20th July 1974, and received his first assignment in the same year as a Missionary to Paraguay. He was the Provincial of the Vice Province of Pilcomayo from 1986 to 1989.

At the 1992 General Chapter, he was elected Asst. General for Formation, and in 1998, he was elected as the twelfth Superior General, and in the 2004 Chapter he was re-elected to head the 4550. Oblates throughout the World.

During his stay in Sri he will visit all the Oblate Houses and Districts.

He will also address the different Groups of Oblates the CBCSL and CMRS. He will also preside at the Oblate Scholasticate 50th anniversary Jubilee and pay a courtesy call on the Archbishop of Colombo, Most Rev. Dr. Malcolm Ranjith and the Bishop of Anuradhapura, Most Rev. Dr. Norbert Andradi OMI.

He will visit the Jaffna Province on 12th December 2009, before leaving the island on 24th December 2009.