The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of Mexico and portions of what today are the Southwestern United States) in order to facilitate colonization of these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan monks with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.

The missions

• Misión La Purísima Concepción de Caborca, in Caborca, Sonora ^*
• Misión San Antonio de Oquitoa, in Oquitoa, Sonora ^*
• Misión San Diego de Pitiquito Mission, in Pitiquito, Sonora ^*
• Misión San Ignacio de Cabórica, in Sonora ^*
• Misión San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama, in Tubutama, Sonora ^*
• Misión Santa Maria Magdalena, in Sonora ^*
• Misión Santiago y Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Cocóspera, in Cocóspera, Sonora ^*

See also

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

External links

• MEXICO'S COLONIAL ERA — PART II: Religion & Society in New Spain
• Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert

Colonial Mexico | Missions in Mexico | Spanish colonization of the Americas