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This is a list of lists of Spanish missions in the Americas. The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic Church ...
Although the Jesuits tried to establish missions from present-day Florida in 1566 up to present-day Virginia in 1571, the Jesuit missions wouldn't gain a strong foothold in North America until 1632, with the arrival of the Jesuit Paul Le Jeune. Between 1632 and 1650, 46 French Jesuits arrived in North America to preach among the Indians. [1]: 2
Tricia Anne Weber: The Spanish Missions of California; California Historical Society; National Register of Historic Places: Early History of the California Coast: List of Sites; California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856 and Finding Aid to the Documents relating to Missions of the Californias : typescript, 1768-1802 at The Bancroft Library
The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, between 1683 and 1834. The missionary goal was to spread the Christian doctrine among the Indigenous peoples living on the Baja California peninsula .
Jesuits [10]: 6 Mission San Ignacio de Oputo: Huásabas: 1644 () Jesuits [10]: 6 Mission San Luis Gonzága de Bacadéhuachi: Nácori Chico: 29.8077, -109.14075: 1645 () Jesuits: Later an independent mission. [10]: 6 [20] Mission Nuestra Señora de Nácori Chico: Nácori Chico: 1665 () Jesuits [10]: 6 Mission Santo Tomás de Serva
Fernando de Alencastre Juan María de Salvatierra Missionary Father Eusebio Kino. Coat of arms of the Marquis of Villapuente de la Peña. The Pious Fund of the Californias (Spanish: Fondo Piadoso de las Californias) is an endowment, originating in 1696, to sponsor the Roman Catholic Jesuit Spanish missions in Baja California, Dominican missions in upper Baja California, and Franciscan Spanish ...
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 ...