The Secular Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers, or as they are more commonly known the Schoenstatt Fathers, is part of the international federation of the Schoenstatt work of which there are also very many lay communities geared towards degrees of spiritual involvement and style of life. While the founding date of the Schoenstatt Movement is given as the 18th October, 1914, the Schoenstatt Fathers were officially founded on the 18th July, 1965 and have their own papal right of Incardination.

The Schoenstatt Fathers live under normal circumstances, in community. They are active in many countries of the world but particularly in Western Europe, North and South Americas, in smaller groups in South, East and Central Africa, Australia and more recently in India. The General Superior lives at the Father-House/Generalate on Mount Sion, Vallendar, Germany.

The prime purpose of the Schoenstatt Fathers is the pastoral care and spiritual service of the lay groups of the Schoenstatt Movement and thereby assisting/contributing towards an emerging new Church model of/for/from (Africa).

The founder, Father Joseph Kentenich, developed Schoenstatt as a renew movement within the Church with a unique spirituality of a sound biblical mariology, permeates by a christological dynamic towards God the Father.

In South Africa the community of the Schoenstatt Fathers live in Claremont, Cape Town and are not only active in the local Schoenstatt Family including the Gauteng Province but also several parishes and supraparochial services.

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