The first Catholic missionary to Asia was John of Montecorvino, born in Italy in 1247. He became a Franciscan friar and went to the Middle East, then on to India around 1292. After a year in India, he journeyed to China.
There were several Catholic missionaries during the 1800s which i am currently studying my thesis on, to name some; Fr. De Smet, Fr. Broulliet, Fr. Point, Fr. Augustine Laure and Fr. Victor Garrand.
Father O'Flynn was the first Catholic missionary to go to Australia.
Of course not, Greater Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist Church as it says.
They invented it. Other religions did not travel throughout the world to proselytize. They do now, but the Catholics were the first.
It depends how you define missionary. Gutenberg printed the first Bible. The bible was printed by Gutenberg under the direction and with the help of the Catholic Church. i feel that the decision to make the bible the first book they printed was a rather "missionary" move of all of them.
The Jesuits combined missionary zeal and a great education with Catholic doctrine.
It depends on what part in Asia
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon or Kollam were the first ones who tried to spread the religion to India, Japan and Southeast Asia.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Patrick was a Catholic bishop and missionary in Ireland, he worked for God and His Catholic Church.
He did most of his work in Asia.
Franciscan missionary of Mary has written: 'The pilgrimage of two little blackamoors' -- subject(s): Blacks, Catholic Church, Fiction, Juvenile literature, Missionary stories, Missions
In normal use, you would not capitalize it. It there are specific instances when it is used as a title that it would be correct to capitalize it. The Catholic Missionary Church was located in Nairobi.