Introduced on Whitsunday 1549, after considerable debate and revision in Parliament — but there is no evidence that it was ever submitted to either Convocation — it was said to have pleased neither reformers nor their opponents, indeed the Catholic Bishop Gardiner could say of it was that it " was patient of a catholic interpretation ".

The policy of incremental reform was now unveiled: more Roman Catholic practices were now excised, as doctrines had in 1549 been subtly changed.

Pope Paul III ( 29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549 ), born Alessandro Farnese, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1534 to his death in 1549.

A Catholic, Yaxley had been a clerk of the Signet and had been employed by William Cecil since 1549, travelling in France for him.

* Pope Paul III ( 1468 – 1549 ), Roman Catholic Bishop of Rome

To counteract the tensions, the Protestant community and the Catholic clergy met for a debate on 8 May 1549.

The Catholic church in Tsuwano itself is dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier, who visited Japan as a missionary in 1549 – 50, and is located on its mainstreet.

About 1549 he moved to Cologne, where, after a profound study of the points of difference between the Catholic and reformed churches, he devoted himself to the project of reunion, thus anticipating the efforts of Gottfried Leibniz.

Portuguese ships began arriving in Japan in 1543, with Catholic missionary activities in Japan beginning in earnest around 1549, mainly by Portuguese-sponsored Jesuits until Spanish-sponsored mendicant orders, such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, gained access to Japan.

* 1549 ( Tenbun 18, 3rd day of the 7th month ): Jesuit Catholic priest Francis Xavier arrives in Japan at Kagoshima.

In 1549, he joined the naval fleet of the first Portuguese Governor-General Tomé de Sousa ( 1502 – 1579 ), following a request by King D. João III to the Society of Jesus, to start the missionary work of converting the Amerindians, who were heathen in the eyes of the Catholic Church, of building churches and religious seminars, and of educating the colonists.

Saint Francis Solanus, O. F. M., () ( 10 March 1549 – 14 July 1610 ) was a Spanish friar and missionary in South America, belonging to the Order of Friars Minor ( the Franciscans ), who is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

** Thomas Stephens, Jesuit missionary ( b. c. 1549 )

Starting in 1549, with the arrival of Francis Xavier at Kagoshima, a large missionary campaign, led by the Society of Jesus, began to shake Japan's social structures.

* Saint Francis Solanus ( 1549 – 1610 ), Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America

He wrote De institutione bene vivendi per exempla sanctorum, a moralist tractate of Biblical inspiration which he managed to publish in 1506 in Venice ; this work influenced St Francis Xavier, and it was claimed by one of Francis ' associates in 1549 to be the only book that he read during his missionary work.

In 1549 missionary Francis Xavier started a Jesuit mission in Japan.

This changed, however, in 1549, the 18th year of Tenbun, when a missionary Francis Xavier landed in the country.

For example, when the missionary Francis Xavier visited Kagoshima Prefecture in 1549, he recorded that " the Japanese drink arak made from rice [...] but I have not seen a single drunkard.

The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan in 1549, and soon afterwards met with Ōtomo Sōrin, shugo of Bungo and Buzen provinces, who would later be described by Xavier as a " king " and convert to Roman Catholicism in 1578.

* 1549 – Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima ( Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549 ).

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

According to a 1549 letters of F. Balthasar Gago in Goa, it was the only book that Francis read or studied.

Francis Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjiro and three other Jesuits, but he was not permitted to enter any port his ship arrived at until 15 August, when he went ashore at Kagoshima, the principal port of the province of Satsuma on the island of Kyūshū.

Shimazu Takahisa ( 1514 – 1571 ), daimyo of Satsuma, gave a friendly reception to Francis on 29 September 1549, but in the following year he forbade the conversion of his subjects to Christianity under penalty of death ; Christians in Kagoshima could not be given any catechism in the following years.

* 1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.

Christianity had an impact on Japan, largely through the efforts of the Jesuits, led first by the Navarrese Saint Francis Xavier ( 1506 – 1552 ), who arrived in Kagoshima in southern Kyūshū in 1549.

* Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, 1549 – 1560

The village of Ōe, along with the Sakitsu in Kawaura-machi to the south, were both visited by Christian missionaries in the wake of St. Francis Xavier's mission to Japan in 1549.

* Margaret of Angoulême, Duchess of Berry ( 1492 – 1549 ), daughter of Charles, Count of Angoulême and only sister of Francis I, King of France.

* Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 also called Margaret of Angoulême ), elder sister of Francis I of France, married Henry II of Navarre

In 1549, he welcomed St. Francis Xavier.

It was the first university in Japan that fulfilled the hopes of St. Francis Xavier, who came to Japan in 1549 to spread Christianity.

* Francis I ( 1549 – 1561 ; also duke of Nevers )

* 1549 Jesuit missionaries led by Xavier arrive in Japan and built a base in Kyushu.

On 25 April 1549 Bucer, Fagius, and others arrived in London, where Cranmer received them with full honours.

In 1549, Captain General Domingo Martinez de Irala became the first Spaniard to explore the region, but it was not until 1558, when Ñuflo de Chaves, who had arrived in Asuncion in 1541 with Alfredo Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, led a new expedition with the objective of settling the region.

Nóbrega arrived in the captaincy of Bahia on March 29, 1549, accompanied by five other Jesuits.

* The Christian Century in Japan 1549 – 1650 C. R.

Ogawa Suketada ( 小川 祐忠 ; 1549 – 1601 ) was a daimyo ( warlord ) in feudal Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

* 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1552 )

The town was the center of Catholic missionary activities in the 9th century Sweden.

Many Catholic saints were noted specifically because of their missionary zeal in converting Jews, such as Vincent Ferrer.

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

While at the time he seemed destined for academic success in the line of his noble family, Xavier turned to a life of Catholic missionary service.

Among the most active of the major Curial institutions are the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees the Catholic Church's doctrine ; the Congregation for Bishops, which coordinates the appointment of bishops worldwide ; the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees all missionary activities ; and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which deals with international peace and social issues.

* According to the first theory the document was an effort to transform the existing missionary bishopric into a regular organization of the Catholic Church, that would cover all of Mieszko's state.

The first pan-Slavist was Croatian Catholic missionary Juraj Križanić (), who lived in 17th century.

The first known overnight stay on Whidbey Island by a non-native American was made on 26 May 1840 by a Catholic missionary during travel across Puget Sound.

* May 12 – Louis Hennepin, Flemish Catholic missionary in North America ( d. c. 1705 )

* December 2 – American missionary Jean Donovan and three Roman Catholic nuns are murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador while volunteering to do charity work during the country's civil war.

* Patrick, ( Patricius ) Catholic bishop, missionary to Ireland

* July 12 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Native American missionary ( b. 1818 )

* April 28 – Peter Chanel, French Roman Catholic missionary ( martyred ) ( b. 1803 )

* April 24 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Roman Catholic missionary ( born 1577 )

* March 15 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary ( b. 1645 )

* August 10 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary ( d. 1711 )

* July 17 – Juan María de Salvatierra, Catholic missionary to the Americas ( b. 1648 )

Category: Roman Catholic missionary work

With the influx of missionary priests trained in the English Colleges in Douai and Rome from the 1570s onwards relations between the authorities and the Catholic community took a further turn for the worse.

The first missionary to arrive was Father Louis Desiré Maigret, a Roman Catholic priest.

Elizabeth I cited Joseph's missionary work in England when she told Roman Catholic bishops that the Church of England pre-dated the Roman Church in England.

Raised in a Catholic family as one of four sons, he was educated at a Protestant primary school, a Catholic missionary school, and finally the government post office training school, passing the one-year course with distinction.