List of Catholic missionaries

## Missionaries

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* 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
* Jaime Garcia Goulart - Portuguese missionary to Macau and East Timor
* 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
* Ferdinand Konščak - Croatian Jesuit missionary to Mexico
* 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
* Jean-François Nothomb - Belgian Catholic missionary in Algeria and Venezuela
* Odoric of Pordenone - Franciscan missionary to China in medieval times
* Juan de Padilla - Franciscan who accompanied Coronado
* Ivan Ratkaj - Croatian Jesuit missionary to Mexico
* 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
* 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
* Ivan Vreman - Croatian Jesuit missionary to India and China
* William of Rubruck - Franciscan missionary to the Mongols
* Józef Wojaczek
* Francis Xavier - Jesuit missionary to India and Japan

## See also

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* List of Catholic missionaries in China

## References

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