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During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church established a number of missions in the Americas and other colonies through the Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans in order to spread Catholicism in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous people.
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
News of the 1534 apparition on Tepayac Hill spread quickly through Mexico; and in the seven years that followed, 1532 through 1538, the Indian people accepted the Spaniards and 8 million people were converted to the Catholic faith. [citation needed] Thereafter, the Aztecs no longer practiced human sacrifice or native forms of worship.
The success of his evangelizing came from gathering individuals and families rather than mass preaching. These preachings lead to baptisms and successful missions in Japan. Jesuit missionaries were also favorable of Japan as a mission destination rather than other destinations due to the highly civilized society of the Japanese people.
The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland, Wales, England and Merovingian France. Catholic Christianity spread first within Ireland. Since the 8th and 9th centuries, these early missions were called 'Celtic ...
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.
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.
A novitiate was established in 1868, and missionary posts were set up in Kabylie and the Sahara. In 1876, three missionaries traveling to Timbuktu were killed by desert nomads. [3] In 1878, ten missionaries departed from Algiers to establish missions at Lakes Victoria, Nyassa, and Tanganyika. [5]