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.
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^Kessell, John L. (27 February 2013). Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 215. ISBN978-0-8061-8944-4.
^Yetman, David (1 November 2012). Conflict in Colonial Sonora: Indians, Priests, and Settlers. UNM Press. ISBN978-0-8263-5222-4.
^Gutierrez, Ramon A. (1 January 1991). When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (1st ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 114. ISBN978-0-8047-1832-5.
^Dunne, Peter Masten (15 November 2023). Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico. Univ of California Press. ISBN978-0-520-34840-0.
^Taylor, Bruce (1 October 2021). Structures of Reform: The Mercedarian Order in the Spanish Golden Age. BRILL. p. 88. ISBN978-90-04-47373-7.