List of Roman Catholic Missionaries

=Roman Catholic=

*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.