Written Tributes

By the Korea-Chinese Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart Fr Adolfo Nicolás SJ with the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart in Korea during a communal discernment process Fr Nicolás facilitated for the sisters in Seoul, 1988 The friendship between Fr Adolfo Nicolás SJ and the…

By Choi Hae Young RSCJ, Korea-Chinese Provincial of the Society of the Sacred Heart In my memory, it was in 1986 when I first met Fr Adolfo Nicolás SJ. He was then a professor of dogmatic theology at Sophia University in Japan, and already very well-known to the Korean Church…

April 29, 1936～May 20, 2020 By Robert Chiesa SJ As 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr Adolfo Nicolás will continue to live on in the history of the Society. His more than eight years of service as General, his six years as Director of the East Asian…

By Daniel Patrick Huang SJ Fr Adolfo Nicolas, whom we called Nico, very rarely spoke about himself. Even when he was sick, his interest was in others. When I last met him in October 2018, in the Japanese Province infirmary in Kamishakujii, along with the Major Superiors of Asia Pacific,…

By Ecojesuit Five years before Laudato Si’ was released, Father Adolfo Nicolás SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, convoked a task force on ecology in 2010 composed of Jesuits and lay collaborators. Their task: to respond to an important concern identified in the 35th General Congregation (GC 35) that…

by Chỉnh Trần SJ Jesuits worldwide mourn the death of Fr Adolfo Nicolás SJ, a Spanish Jesuit and former Superior General of the Society of Jesus between 2008 and 2016, who died on Wednesday, 20 May 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Fr Nicolás, affectionately called “Nico” by the Jesuits of AsiaPacific, is remembered…