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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 ...
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.
List of Protestant missionaries in India; List of Catholic missionaries; List of Catholic missionaries to China; List of Catholic missionaries in India; List of Catholic missions in Africa; List of missionaries to Hawaii; List of missionaries to the South Pacific; List of Slovenian missionaries; List of Protestant missionaries to Southeast Asia
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.
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]
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 ]
1786 – John Marrant, a free black from New York City, writes in his journal that he preached to "a great number of Indians and white people" at Green's Harbor, Newfoundland. [197] Marrant's cross-cultural ministry led him to take the Gospel to the Cherokee, Creek, Catawba (he called them the Catawar, and Housaw Indians.
Sacred Heart Mission; St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Jebel Ali; 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 ...