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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
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 mission was later reestablished in the vicinity of present-day Windsor, closer to the defences at Detroit. The Huron mission served both native and European residents, with the arrival of French settlers in the area. In 1767, the mission became the Parish of Assumption, the earliest Roman Catholic parish in present-day Ontario. [4]
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.
Lloyd Kim - American missionary to Cambodia and the coordinator of Mission to the World; Harvie M. Conn - American missionary to Korea and a missiologist; John Livingston Nevius - American missionary in China who advocated the Nevius Principle; Ralph D. Winter - American missiologist and founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission
San Miguel Mission, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, established in 1610, is the oldest church in the United States.. The Catholic Church in the United States began in the colonial era, but by the mid-1800s, most of the Spanish, French, and Mexican influences had demographically faded in importance, with Protestant Americans moving west and taking over many formerly Catholic regions.
Mission San Antonio de Padua: 1771 1976 Monterey County, CA: Spanish Colonial: Roman Catholic: San Francisco de Asís Mission Church: 1772–1816 1970 Ranchos de Taos, NM: Spanish Colonial: Roman Catholic: First Baptist Church in America: 1775 1960 Providence, RI: Georgian: Baptist: Mission San Xavier del Bac: 1783–97 1960 Pima County, AZ ...