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Map of New France (Champlain, 1612). Jesuit missions in North America were attempted in the late 16th century, established early in the 17th century, faltered at the beginning of the 18th, disappeared during the suppression of the Society of Jesus around 1763, and returned around 1830 after the restoration of the Society.
His father was of Spanish origin, and his mother was Italian. [2] [3] He studied in the Jesuit college of Parma. It was there that he accidentally came across a book on the "Indian missions," which fascinated him. He entered the Jesuit Order in Genoa and in 1675 he sailed for the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day Mexico.
American Colonies, New York: Viking, 2001. Jamestown 2007 Archived February 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, America's 400th Anniversary "Ajacan, The Spanish Jesuit Mission", The Mariners' Museum, 2002; Lewis, Clifford M. and Albert J. Loomie (1953). The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia 1570–1572. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel ...
The parish was established in 1928 [2] [4] and dedicated in honor of St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552), the Spanish-born Jesuit missionary to India and Japan, who died en route to China. [5] The first pastor was the Rev. James Edward Kearney (1884–1977), who served St. Francis Xavier from 1928 until 1932, when he became Bishop of Salt Lake ...
During the Spanish colonization of the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire established many hundreds of Catholic missions throughout their colonies in the Americas. These missions were founded and staffed by numerous Catholic religious orders of regular clergy. The following is a list of these missionaries to New Spain.
In 1943, the Maryland-New York Province was once again split into the Maryland Province and the New York Province, whose territory included all of New York State and northern New Jersey. From the New York Province, the Buffalo Province was created in 1960, whose territory included Upstate New York; due to a decline in the number of vocations ...
Hans Urs von Balthasar, 20th-century theologian, Jesuit from 1928 to 1950 when he left the order to found a new community with Adrienne von Speyr; Balthazar of Loyola, Moroccan prince who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest; Cipriano Barace, Spanish missionary and martyr; Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr in El Salvador
The Archdiocese of New York had operated a seminary at Fordham, once affiliated with what is now Fordham University, staffed by diocesan and, later, Jesuit priests. The main building of St. Joseph's Seminary and College at Dunwoodie, Yonkers. In 1864 Archbishop McCloskey established St. Joseph's Provincial Seminary in Troy, New York.