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Melchior Nunes Barreto, the Glossary

Melchior Nunes Barreto (Belchior) was a 16th century Portuguese Jesuit priest who acted as a missionary in India, China, and Japan.^[1]

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16th-century Portuguese Jesuits
Clergy from Porto
Jesuit missionaries in India
Jesuit missionaries in Japan
Portuguese India
Portuguese Roman Catholic missionaries

Abbot

Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions.

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.

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Braga

Braga (Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province.

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Bungo Province

was a province of Japan in the area of eastern Kyūshū, corresponding to most of modern Ōita Prefecture, except what is now the cities of Nakatsu and Usa.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Coimbra

Coimbra (also,, or) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.

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Convent

A convent is a community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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François Angelier

François Angelier (born 22 August 1958) is a French journalist, presenter, essayist, biographer and author of fantasy novels.

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Francis Xavier, SJ (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; French: François Xavier; Spanish: Francisco Javier; Portuguese: Francisco Xavier; 7 April 15063 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was born in Navarre, Spain Catholic missionary and saint who co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan. Melchior Nunes Barreto and Francis Xavier are Jesuit missionaries in China.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jesuit missions in China

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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John Carter Brown Library

The John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded research library of history and the humanities on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Kochi

Kochi, also known by its former name Cochin, is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea.

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Lampacau

Lampacau or Lampacao, also known by other names, was a small island in the Pearl River Delta, which in the mid-16th century played an important role in Sino-Portuguese trade.

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List of Jesuit educational institutions

The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in the Catholic Church have founded and managed a number of educational institutions, including the notable secondary schools, colleges, and universities listed here.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Macau

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Peter Faber

Peter Faber, SJ (Pierre Lefevre or Favre, Petrus Faver) (13 April 1506 – 1 August 1546) was a Jesuit priest and theologian, who was also a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier.

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Porto

Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Portuguese India

The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.

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Portuguese Macau

Macau (officially the Province of Macau from 1897 to 1976 and later the Autonomous Region of Macau from 1976 to 1999) was a Portuguese colony from the establishment of the first official Portuguese settlement of Macau in 1557 to its handover to China in 1999.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Nunes_Barreto

Melchior Nunes Barreto, the Glossary

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See also

16th-century Portuguese Jesuits

Clergy from Porto

Jesuit missionaries in India

Jesuit missionaries in Japan

Portuguese India

Portuguese Roman Catholic missionaries

References