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World Mission Sunday is a day set aside for the Catholic Church throughout the world to publicly renew its commitment to the missionary movements, coordinated by the Pontifical Mission Societies, who are also known as Missio. It is celebrated on the penultimate (second-last) Sunday of October every year, [1] (October 19, 2025; [2] October 18, 2026
The Pontifical Mission Societies (TPMS), known in some countries as Missio, is the name of a group of Catholic missionary societies that are under the jurisdiction of the Pope. These organizations include the Society for the Propagation of the Faith , the Society of St. Peter the Apostle , the Holy Childhood Association and the Missionary Union ...
During the Age of Discovery, the Roman 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.
In May 1869, the Catholic priest, Father James Augustine Healy from the Church of Saint James in Boston invited the Redemptorists to give a parish mission. Pleased with the success of the mission, Father Healy recommended to the Bishop that the religious congregation should establish a mission-house in Boston. [ 5 ]
The Society for the Propagation of the Faith (Latin: Propagandum Fidei) is an international association coordinating assistance for Catholic missionary priests, brothers, and nuns in mission areas. The society was founded in Lyon, France, in 1822, by Pauline Jaricot. It is the oldest of four Pontifical Mission Societies of the Catholic Church.
1837 – Evangelical Lutheran Church mission board established; [256] First translation of Bible into Japanese (actual translation work done in Singapore). 1838 – Church of Scotland Mission of Inquiry to the Jews; four Scottish ministers including Robert Murray M'Cheyne and Andrew Bonar journey to Palestine; Augustinians enter Australia.
The Saint Francis Xavier Mission, in Lewis County, Washington three miles north of present-day Toledo, [1] [2] was the first Catholic mission in what is now the U.S. state of Washington. [3] [4] As of 2019, the Saint Francis Xavier Mission is the oldest Catholic church in the state. [5]
The Missionary Society of St. Columban (Latin: Societas Sancti Columbani pro Missionibus ad Exteros) (abbreviated as S.S.C.M.E. or SSC), commonly known as the Columbans, is a missionary Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right founded in Ireland in 1917 and approved by the Holy See in 1918.