Spanish missions in Georgia
The Spanish missions in Georgia comprised a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the Guale and various Timucua peoples in what is now southeastern Georgia.
Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established a number of missions throughout Spanish Florida in order to convert the Native Americans to Christianity, to facilitate control of the area, and to prevent its colonization by other countries, in particular, England and France. Spanish Florida originally included much of what is now the Southeastern United States, although Spain never exercised long-term effective control over more than the northern part of what is now the state of Florida from present-day St. Augustine to the area around Tallahassee, southeastern Georgia, and some coastal settlements, such as Pensacola, Florida. A few short-lived missions were established in other locations, including Mission Santa Elena in present-day South Carolina, around the Florida peninsula, and in the interior of Georgia and Alabama.
Missions
This table includes doctrinas, missions that normally had one or more resident missionaries, but does not include visitas, which never had a resident missionary, and had less substantial church buildings where services were conducted by visiting missionaries.| Mission Name | Location | Province or Region | Documentation of when missions were active is incomplete. Years listed in this column may not represent either the earliest or the latest year in which a mission was in use.Efn|name=nameunknown|Place name. Mission name unknown.Efn|name=espo|Espogache, Tolomato, and Tupiqui were neighboring towns in Guale which seem to have merged, or to have hosted the mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in sequence.Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=447–449Efn|name=nameunknown|Place name. Mission name unknown.Sfn|Hann|1990|p=429Efn|name=espo|Espogache, Tolomato, and Tupiqui were neighboring towns in Guale which seem to have merged, or to have hosted the mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in sequence.Efn|Some residents of the mission may have moved to La Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Tolomato near St. Augustine.Sfn|Hann|1990|p=445Efn|name=nameunknown|Place name. Mission name unknown.Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=449–450Sfn|Hann|1990|p=470Sfn|Hann|1990|p=442Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=466–467Efn|San Felipe may have merged with San Pedro de Atulteca.Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=467–468Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=498–499Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=456–458Sfn|Hann|1996|pp=153–154Efn|The Atulteca mission had moved to Cumberland Island by 1675, then to Amelia Island by 1695.Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=464–466Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=437–438Sfn|Hann|1990|p=438Sfn|Hann|1990|p=440Sfn|Hann|1990|p=446Sfn|Hann|1990|p=471Efn|Santa Isabel was located somewhere in the southern part of the Altamaha River basin, northeast of the mission at Santa Cruz de Tarihica.Sfn|Hann|1990|p=463Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=470-471Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=463–464Efn|Originally by the Altamaha River on the mainland, Santo Domingo moved to St. Simon's Island by 1675.Efn|Asao and Talafe were distinct towns that were later merged. Both names of the mission were used at various times.Sfn|Hann|1990|pp=443–445Efn|name=nameunknown|Place name. Mission name unknown.Efn|name=espo|Espogache, Tolomato, and Tupiqui were neighboring towns in Guale which seem to have merged, or to have hosted the mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in sequence.Sfn|Hann|1990|p=429 |