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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 ...
The history of the missions of the Society of Jesus or Jesuits in Ming and Qing China stands as one of the notable events in the early history of relations between China and the Western world, as well as a prominent example of relations between two cultures and belief systems in the pre-modern age.
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
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
Three missionaries from Barcelona founded the first overseas mission in 1882 near Rabaul on the island of New Britain in Papua, where the order began a mission at Yule Island in 1885. [ 4 ] In 1885, a supply base for the Papua New Guinea mission was founded in Sydney , Australia and the Australian Province was established in 1905. [ 5 ]
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