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
• 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
• 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

• List of Catholic missionaries in China