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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 ...
Catholic Historical Review 101.2 (2015) pp. 242–273. Hsia, R. Po-chia. "The Catholic Historical Review: One Hundred Years of Scholarship on Catholic Missions in the Early Modern World." Catholic Historical Review 101.2 (2015): 223–241. online, mentions over 100 articles and books, mostly on North America and Latin America.
The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time.. According to the tradition of the Catholic Church, it started from the day of Pentecost at the upper room of Jerusalem; [1] the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of Jesus.
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
Most of the people in the territory of the German Democratic Republic were Protestants. With exception of the Eichsfeld, a small Catholic region in the northwestern part of Thuringia, which was a former property of the archdiocese of Mainz, Catholics were a small minority right from the start of Communist rule. In contrast to the Protestant ...
To win popular support for his rule, Napoleon re-established the Catholic Church in France through the Concordat of 1801. [12] All over Europe, the end of the Napoleonic wars signaled by the Congress of Vienna, brought Catholic revival, renewed enthusiasm, and new respect for the papacy following the depredations of the previous era. [13]
The Catholic Church and the French Nation, 1589–1989 (1990) Reardon, Bernard. Liberalism and Tradition: Aspects of Catholic Thought in Nineteenth-Century France (1975) Roberts, Rebecca. "Le Catholicisme au féminin: Thirty Years of Women's History", Historical Reflections (2013) 39#1 pp. 82–100, on nuns and sisters in France; Sabatier, Paul.