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Andrés de Oviedo (1518 - 29 June 1577), also known as Andre da Oviedo, was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and Patriarch of Ethiopia. Oviedo was born in Illescas, Toledo . On 19 June 1541, while in Rome , he entered the Society of Jesus , nine months after it was approved by Pope Paul III .
José de Acosta, member of the Society of Jesus, missionary and author. José de Acosta, SJ (1539 or 1540 [1] in Medina del Campo, Spain – February 15, 1600 in Salamanca, Spain) was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America.
The Patronato Real, or Royal Patronage, was a series of papal bulls constructed in the 15th and early 16th Century that set the secular relationship between the Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church, effectively pronouncing the Spanish King’s control over the Church in the Americas. It clarified the Crown’s responsibility to promote the ...
Spanish missions in Florida; Spanish missions in Georgia; Spanish missions in Louisiana; Spanish missions in New Mexico; Spanish missions in Texas; Spanish missions in South America. Jesuit reduction; List of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos; Circular Mission; Córdoba; Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue
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.
The Jesuit Conference of South Asia (JCSA) gathers the Jesuits of 19 provinces, 2 regions and of South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). It is the collaborating body of the 19 provincial superiors and 2 regional superiors of the Society of Jesus in South Asia.
Cipriano Barace, Spanish missionary and martyr; Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr in El Salvador; Pedro Barreto, Peruvian cardinal proclaimed by Pope Francis in 2018. Augustin Barruel, French writer; Florian Baucke, Silesian and Bohemian Jesuit missionary to South America; Michel Baudouin, Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749-1763)
Diego Luis de San Vitores, SJ (November 12, 1627 – April 2, 1672) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who founded the first Catholic church on the island of Guam. He is responsible for establishing the Christian presence in the Mariana Islands. He is a controversial figure in some circles due to his role in the Spanish–Chamorro Wars.