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
- Jaime Garcia Goulart - Portuguese missionary to Macau and East Timor
- 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
- Jean-François Nothomb - Belgian Catholic missionary in Algeria and Venezuela
- 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