Spanish missions in Arizona

History of Arizona
European Colonization
Spanish Period
Mexican Period
Territorial Period
The Depression and World Wars

Beginning in the 16th century Spain established missions throughout New Spain (consisting of Mexico and portions of what today are the Southwestern United States) in order to facilitate colonization of these lands.

In the Spring of 1687, a Jesuit missionary named Father Eusebio Francisco Kino lived and worked with the native Americans in the area called the Pimería Alta, or "Upper Pima Country," which presently is located in the areas between the Mexican state of Sonora and the state of Arizona in the United States. During Father Eusebio Kino's stay in the Pimería Alta, he founded over twenty missions in eight mission districts. In Arizona, unlike Mexico, missionization proceeded slowly.

Father Kino founded missions San Xavier and San Gabriel at the Piman communities of Bac and Guevavi along the Santa Cruz River.

Missions

Franciscan:

• Mission San Francisco de Oraibi 1629 – 1680
• Mission San Bernardo de Aguatubi 1629 – 1680
• Mission San Bartolomé de Shungópove 1629 – 1680

Jesuit (Franciscan after 1768):

• Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori 1691 – 1751
• Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi 1691 – 1775
• Mission San Xavier del Bac 1692 – 1770, 1783 – 1837, 1859 – present
• Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas 1756 – 1786
• Mission San José de Tumacácori 1757 – 1848
• Mission de San Agustin del Tucson 1768 – 1828
• Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer 1781

See also

• Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert
• Spanish missions in California
• Spanish missions in New Mexico
• Spanish missions in Texas
• Jesuit Asia missions
• Jesuit Reductions
• Reductions

External links

• National Park Service, Kino Missions
• Arizona Education, Kino Missions