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  2. Catholic missions - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    The convent of San Augustin, a mission centre established at Yuriria, Mexico in 1550. The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples.

  4. Timeline of Christian missions - Wikipedia

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    1493 – Pope Alexander VI allows Spain to colonize the New World with Catholic missions; Christopher Columbus takes Christian priests with him on his second journey to the New World; 1494 – First missionaries arrive in Dominican Republic; 1495 – The head of a convent in Seville, Spain, Mercedarian Jorge, makes a trip to the West Indies.

  5. List of missionaries to New Spain - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Jesuit Missions of Moxos - Wikipedia

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    The Jesuit Missions of Moxos are located in the Llanos de Moxos of Beni department in eastern Bolivia. Distinguished by a unique fusion of European and Amerindian cultural influences, the missions were founded as reductions or reducciones de indios by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert local tribes to Christianity .

  7. Christian mission - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopedia of Missions (2nd ed. 1904) Online, Global coverage Of Protestant and Catholic missions. Endres, David J. American Crusade: Catholic Youth in the World Mission Movement from World War I Through Vatican II (2010) Etherington, Norman, ed. Missions and Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) (2008)

  8. Parochial mission - Wikipedia

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    A parochial mission or parish mission is a special pastoral effort in the Catholic Church aimed at preaching to and instructing Catholic followers. These are "home missions" geared toward Catholics, distinguished from apostolic missions to make conversions among non-believers.

  9. Visitas - Wikipedia

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    Visitas or asistencias were smaller sub-missions of Catholic missions established during the 16th-19th centuries of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. They allowed the Catholic church and the Spanish crown to extend their reach into native populations at a modest cost.