 In 1865 the colony was assigned to the Redemptorists by the Holy See.Donders asked to join their order and was received at Paramaribo in 1866 by Monsignor Johannes Baptist Swinkels, the first Redemptorist vicar Apostolic.He was vested in the habit on 1 November 1886, and made his final vows on 24 June 1867.