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Alessandro Valignano – Italian Jesuit who supervised missions in the Far East, particularly Japan Padre Antonio Vieira – Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Brazil and South America, converted Indians in South America; called the Great Father of the indegian people in South America, was against the inquisition, and probably is one of the ...
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.
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.
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.
Saint Francis Xavier Mission (Lewis County, Washington) St. Joseph Catholic Mission Church; St. Mary's Catholic Church, Dubai; Saint Paul's Outreach; St. Paul's Mission; Saint-Paul-des-Cris; Saucunk; Société des Missions-Étrangères du Québec; Society for the Propagation of the Faith; Spanish Redemptorist missions in Sichuan
Catholic missions were installed throughout the Americas in an effort to integrate native populations as part of the Spanish culture; from the point of view of the Monarchy, naturals of America were seen as Crown subjects in need of care, instruction and protection from the military and settlers, many of which were in the pursuit of wealth ...
This is a list of lists of Spanish missions in the Americas. The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America
Medical Mission Sisters; Medical Missionaries of Mary; Mission Society of the Philippines; Missionaries of Charity; Missionaries of Christ Jesus; Missionaries of St. John the Baptist; Missionaries of the Poor; Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; Missionary Fathers of Our Lady of Deliverance