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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.
Spanish missions in Arizona; Spanish missions in California; Spanish missions in the Carolinas; 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 ...
In Spanish Florida, visitas were mission stations without a resident missionary. Church buildings at visitas were simple, or sometimes absent. [ 3 ] Visitas were often in satellite villages associated with a town with a doctrina (a mission with one or more resident missionaries).
Spanish Vice-royalties in America had the same structure as the Vice-Royalties in Spanish provinces. The Catholic church depended on the Kings administratively, but in doctrine was subjected, as always, to Rome. Spain had a long battle with the Moors, and Catholicism was an important factor unifying the Spaniards against the Muslims.
A Minnesota pastor was “killed in an act of violence” in Africa while he and his family were on a Christian missionary trip. Beau Shroyer, a pastor of Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit ...
Although the Jesuits tried to establish missions from present-day Florida in 1566 up to present-day Virginia in 1571, the Jesuit missions wouldn't gain a strong foothold in North America until 1632, with the arrival of the Jesuit Paul Le Jeune. Between 1632 and 1650, 46 French Jesuits arrived in North America to preach among the Indians. [1]: 2
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — The wife of a Minnesota missionary who was killed in Angola has been arrested in connection with his death, according to Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes.
La Misión de San Gabriel de Guevavi was founded by Jesuit missionary priests Eusebio Kino and Juan María de Salvatierra in 1691. Subsequent missionaries called it San Rafael and San Miguel, resulting in the common historical name of Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi (O'odham: Geʼe Wawhia Big Well/Spring [3] [4]).