List of Roman Catholic 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
• José de Anchieta – 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.
• Luis de Bolaños – Missionary who started the Indian Reductions system in Paraguay.
• Libert H. Boeynaems – Missionary to Hawaii.
• Jean de Brébeuf – French Jesuit martyr in Canada who wrote Huron Carol.
• Luis Cancer – Missionary in Central America.
• Father Damien – Missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers.
• Louis William Valentine Dubourg – Missionary to the USA.
• 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 USA.
• Eusebio Kino – Missionary to what is now the US Southwest.
• Fermín Lasuén – Founder of numerous missions in Baja California.
• Jacques Marquette – Missionary and explorer.
• Saint Ninian
• 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.

Holy Ghost Fathers

• 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.
• William of Rubruck – Franciscan missionary to the Mongols.
• Alessandro Valignano – Italian Jesuit who supervised missions in the Far East, particularly Japan.
• Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to India and Japan.