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The following year saw the Fall of Constantinople to Muslim invaders. [14] Several decades later, European colonizers and missionaries spread Catholicism to the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Pope Alexander VI had awarded colonial rights over most of the newly discovered lands to Spain and Portugal. [15]
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.
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, From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium James Hitchcock, Ph.D. Ignatius Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1-58617-664-8; Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church. Crocker, H.W. Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Revised and expanded ed. New York: Image Books Doubleday, 2005.
1800 - New York Missionary Society formed; Johann Janicke founds a school in Berlin to train young people for missionary service [72] 1800 - Friedrich Schleiermacher publishes his first book, beginning Liberal Christianity movement; 1800 - James Dixon and two other Irish convicts the first Catholic priests in Australia.
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.
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.
Adherence to Catholicism in Europe (2010) About 35% [1] of the population of Europe today is Catholic, but only about a quarter of all Catholics worldwide reside in Europe. . This is due in part to the movement and immigration at various times of largely Catholic European ethnic groups (such as the Irish, Italians, Poles, Portuguese, and Spaniards) to continents such as the Americas and Austra