List of Catholic missionaries

Missionaries[edit]

• Gabriele Allegra, O.F.M. – missionary to China to translate the Bible
• Francisco Álvares – Portuguese missionary to Ethiopia.
• Saint Amand – missionary of Flanders
• José de Anchieta – Spanish missionary in Brazil
• Alexis Bachelot – missionary to Hawaii
• Alonzo de Barcena – missionary and linguist
• Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo – missionary in Mozambique
• Jean-Rémy Bessieux – missionary to Gabon and its first bishop
• Giacomo Bini – Franciscan missionary to Rwanda
• Libert H. Boeynaems – missionary to Hawaii
• Luis de Bolaños – missionary who started the Indian Reductions system in Paraguay
• François Bourgade – one of the first Christian missionaries to Muslim North Africa
• Jean de Brébeuf – French Jesuit martyr in Canada who wrote "Huron Carol"
• Luis Cancer – missionary in Hispañola, Central America and Florida
• Saint Daniele Comboni – Italian bishop and missionary to Africa
• Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – Spanish missionary in Guatemala
• Father Damien – missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers
• Anton Docher – French missionary in New Mexico, defender of the Native Americans
• Louis William Valentine Dubourg – missionary to the US
• Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God
• Joseph Freinademetz – nineteenth-century canonized missionary to China
• René Goupil – French missionary to what is now Canada
• Évariste Régis Huc – French missionary in nineteenth century China
• Isaac Jogues – French missionary to what is now Canada
• John of Montecorvino – Franciscan missionary to China in Medieval times
• Jordanus – Dominican missionary to India
• Peter Richard Kenrick – Irish missionary to the US
• Eusebio Kino – pioneer Jesuit missionary and explorer to what is now Baja California, Northwest Mexico, and the southwest US
• Fermín Lasuén – founder of numerous missions in Baja California
• Segundo Llorente – Spanish missionary to Alaska
• Jacques Marquette – missionary and explorer
• Peter Hildebrand Meienberg – missionary to East Africa
• Victor Mosele – missionary to Sierra Leone
• Saint Ninian – missionary of Scotland
• Marcos de Niza – French Franciscan missionary who accompanied Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
• Roberto de Nobili – Jesuit missionary in India who learned Tamil and Sanskrit
• Odoric of Pordenone – Franciscan missionary to China in Medieval times
• Juan de Padilla – Franciscan who accompanied Coronado
• Alexander de Rhodes – French Jesuit important to the history of Christianity in Vietnam
• Matteo Ricci – Jesuit missionary in China
• Junípero Serra – founded the mission system of what is now the US state of California
• Mother Teresa – missionary to India
• Alessandro Valignano – Italian Jesuit who supervised missions in the Far East, particularly Japan
• Józef Wojaczek
• William of Rubruck – Franciscan missionary to the Mongols
• Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to India and 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 biggest converters of people to Roman Catholic faith

See also[edit]

• List of Catholic missionaries in China

References[edit]