title: List of Catholic missionaries
text: # List of Catholic missionaries
  
  ## Missionaries
  
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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
  * Józef Wojaczek
  * William of Rubruck – Franciscan missionary to the Mongols
  * Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to India and 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
  