There are around 30 groups in the Salesian Family, but only those with links at the left are represented in the Western USA. Below is a complete list.

For the less well-known groups, the founder, date of foundation, and the date of official belonging to the Salesian Family are given in parentheses.

1. Society of Saint Francis de Sales (SDB)

2. Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA)

3. Association of Salesian Cooperators

4. World Confederation of the Past Pupils of Don Bosco

5. World Confederation of the Past Pupils of Mary Help of Christians (October 29, 1988)

6. Secular Institute of the Volunteers of Don Bosco

7. Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Fr. Luigi Variara at Agua de Dios, Colombia on May 7 1905; official recognition December 24 1983)

8. Salesian Oblates of the Sacred Heart (Bishop Giuseppe Cognata at Bova Marina, Italy on December 8 1933; official recognition December 24 1983)

9. Sisters Apostles of the Holy Family (Card. Giuseppe Guarino at Messina, Italy on June 29 1889; official recognition December 18 1984)

10. Caritas Sisters of Miyazaki (Fr. Anthony Cavoli at Miyazaki, Japan on August 15 1937; official recognition January 24 1986)

11. Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (Bishop Stephen Ferrando at Guwahati, India, October 24 1942; official recognition: June 27 1986)

12. Handmaids of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Bishop Gaetano Pasotti at Bang Nok Khuek, Thailand on December 7 1937; official recognition: February 6 1987)

13. Daughters of the Divine Savior (Bishop Pedro A. Aparicio at San Vicente, El Salvador on Christmas Day 1956; official recognition: February 5 1987)

14. Daughters of Jesus Adolescent (Bishop Vicente Priante at Campo Grande, Brazil on December 8 1938; official recognition: December 23 1988)

15. Association of Salesian Ladies (Fr. Miguel Gonzalez at Caracas, Venezuela on May 13 1968; official recognition: December 29 1988)

16. Association of Mary Help of Christians (Don Bosco in Turin on April 18 1868; official recognition: July 5 1989)

17. Catechist Sisters of Mary Immaculate and Help of Christians (Bishop Louis La Ravoire Morrow at Krishnagar, India on December 12 1948; official recognition: June 10 1992)

OTHER GROUPS BEGUN ON THE INITIATIVE OF SALESIANS

18. Sisters Announcers of the Lord (Bishops Luigi Versiglia and Ignazio Canazei at Shiu-Chow and Hong-Kong on May 30 1931)

19. Pious Union of Mary Mazzarello (Fr. Luis Pedemonte at Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 15 1939)

20. Josephine Daughters (Bishop Antonio Lustosa at Fortaleza, Brazil on December 29 1949)

21. Daughters of the Queenship of Mary (Fr. Carlo della Torre; Bangkok, Thailand on December 3 1954)

22. Daughters of Mary Co-Redemptrix (Fr. Carlo Forno at Reggio Calabria, Italy on July 26 1956)

23. Parish Missionaries of Mary Help of Christians (Fr. Andres Nemeth at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on October 16 1961)

24. Missionaries of the Good Jesus (Bishop Orlando Chaves at Cuiabá, Brazil on February 11 1964)

25. Mediator Daughters of Peace (Bishop Antonio Campelo at Petrolina, Brazil on December 10 1968)

26. Daughters of the Resurrection (Fr. Giorgio Puthenpura at San Pedro Carchà, Guatemala on September 15 1977)

27. Visitation Sisters of Don Bosco (Bishop Hubert D'Rosario at Shillong, India on May 31 1983)

Other groups are being founded in various parts of the world, for example:

1. The Disciples - Don Bosco Secular institute (India, spreading to Italy)

2. Bethany in Slovakia.

3. Louis Variaria Secular Movement, animated by the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Colombia)

Information compiled by Fr. Mario Midali SDB, professor of theology at the Salesian Pontifical University.