Images (1)

Christianity in Asia by Stephanie Bonilla

By stephybo
  • Japan's 1st contact
    Apr 23, 1549

    Japan's 1st contact

    Japan’s first contact with Christianity is 1549
  • Period: Apr 23, 1550 to

    Christianity in Asia

  • Dominican Gaspar da Cruz
    Apr 23, 1556

    Dominican Gaspar da Cruz

    Dominican Gaspar da Cruz arrives in Guangzhou, China
  • Missionary Vilela settles in Kyoto, Japan
    Apr 23, 1559

    Missionary Vilela settles in Kyoto, Japan

  • Apr 23, 1564

    Legaspi begins Augustinian work in Philippine Islands

  • Apr 23, 1567

    Missionaries Jeronimo da Cruz and Sebastiao da Canto, both Dominicans, arrive at Ayutthia, Thailand

  • Apr 23, 1568

    In the Philippines, Diego de Herrera baptizes Chieftain Tupas of Cebu and his son

  • Apr 23, 1580

    Japanese Daimyo (feudal landholder) Arima Harunobu becomes Christian and takes the name Protasio

  • Apr 23, 1582

    Jesuits begin mission work in China, introduce Western science, mathematics, astronomy

    Jesuits begin mission work in China, introduce Western science, mathematics, astronomy

  • Matteo Ricci and a Chinese scholar translate a catechism into Chinese under the title T'ien-chu sheng-chiao shih-lu (A True Account of God and the Sacred Religion)

    Matteo Ricci and a Chinese scholar translate a catechism into Chinese under the title T'ien-chu sheng-chiao shih-lu (A True Account of God and the Sacred Religion)

  • Carmelite leader Jerome Gracian meets with Martin Ignatius de Loyola, a Franciscan missionary from China.

    Carmelite leader Jerome Gracian meets with Martin Ignatius de Loyola, a Franciscan missionary from China. The two sign a vinculo de hermandad misionera -- a bond of missionary brotherhood -- by which the two orders would collaborate in missionary work in Ethiopia, China, the Philippines, and the East and West Indies

  • A Dominican missionary arrives in the Philippines

  • First Chinese admitted as members of the Jesuit order

  • The Franciscans arrive in Japan and establish St. Anna's hospital in Kyoto

    The Franciscans arrive in Japan and establish St. Anna's hospital in Kyoto

  • Jesuit missionaries travel

    Jesuit missionaries travel across the island of Samar in the Philippines to establish mission centers on the eastern side

  • Twenty-six Japanese Christians

    Twenty-six Japanese Christians are crucified for their faith by General Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Nagasaki, Japan. By 1640, thousands of Japanese Christians will have been martyred
  • Matteo Ricci goes to China

    Matteo Ricci goes to China

    Matteo Ricci goes to China; First ordination of Japanese priests

  • Chinese scientist and translator Xu Guangqi is baptized

  • The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan commences publication of a Japanese- Portuguese dictionary

  • Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu bans Christianity

  • Missionary Nicolas Trigault goes to China

    Missionary Nicolas Trigault goes to China