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1800 – New York Missionary Society formed; Johann Janicke founds a school in Berlin to train young people for missionary service. [208] 1800 – Irish priests including Fr James Dixon arrive in Australia as convicts. 1801 – John Theodosius van der Kemp moves to Graaff Reinet to minister to the Khoikhoi (Hottentots) people.
The Catholic Church has been the driving force behind some of the major events of world history including the Christianization of Western and Central Europe and Latin America, the spreading of literacy and the foundation of the universities, hospitals, the Western tradition of monasticism, the development of art and music, literature ...
During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church established a number of missions in the Americas and other colonies through the Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans in order to spread Catholicism in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous people.
1640 – Piscataway (Roman Catholic Church) 1642 – Huron-Wendat Nation (Roman Catholic Church) 1650 – Kingdom of Larantuka (Roman Catholic Church) 1654 – Onondaga (Roman Catholic Church) 1663–1665 – Kingdom of Loango (briefly Roman Catholic) 1675 – Illinois Confederation (Roman Catholic Church) 1680 – Siau goes from Catholic to ...
Lloyd Kim - American missionary to Cambodia and the coordinator of Mission to the World; Harvie M. Conn - American missionary to Korea and a missiologist; John Livingston Nevius - American missionary in China who advocated the Nevius Principle; Ralph D. Winter - American missiologist and founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission
The Polish Catholic Mission was placed on a permanent footing in 1894 by Cardinal Vaughan, the then Archbishop of Westminster. The nucleus of the mission and its chaplaincy was formed by Blessed Franciszka Siedliska (1842–1902), founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth and its spiritual director, rev. Lechert CR. Sr.
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1800 1860 Bishop of Massawa: Martyrs of Damascus 1860 Peter Francis Neron: 1818 1860 Blessed Elisabetta Vendramini: 1790 1860 Blessed Emmanuel Ruiz and companions: 1804 1860 Gaetano Errico: 1791 1860 Blessed John Nepomucen: 1777 1860 Blessed Peter Friedhofen: 1819 1860 Etienne-Theodore Cluenot: 1802 1861 Eugene de Mazenod: 1782 1861