Colegios de Propaganda Fide w Nowym Świecie
Colegios de Propaganda Fide in the New World

Summary/Abstract: The initiation of the functioning of the Colleges of Propaganda Fide (Colegios de Propaganda Fide) in the New World should be seen as a weighty impulse for the renewal of missionary commitment in the seventeenth century. Latin America was already to a large extent Christianized although many areas were still a valid missionary challenge for the Church there. The initiators of this missionary awakening were the Franciscans, who undertook the task of creating appropriate formation and educational centres, with a view to educate missionaries according to current needs in individual areas. In total, 17 missionary colleges were established, which were directly subordinate to the Roman Congregation for Propaganda Fide. Thanks to these efforts missionary work in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries covered many previously neglected areas in Central and South America.

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