Native peoples: Primarily Ohlone, though also Miwok, Patwin and Yokuts.
Goods produced: Wheat, barley, corn, beans, peas. Native peoples: Ohlone, Coast Miwok, southern Pomo, Wappo, perhaps Winton, Maidu, Miwok, Yokuts. Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores). Website: Historical landmark: California Historical Landmark no. Goods produced: Wheat, barley, corn, beans, peas, lentils, garbanzos, pears, grapes. Native peoples: Coast Miwok, Wappo and Pomo. Mission San Rafael Arcángel Photo by Damian Bacich/.įounders: Fathers Sarriá, Abella, Durán and Taboada.
This mission was never a large agricultural producer. Goods produced: Some grain, also grapes and other fruit. Native peoples: Coast Miwok, Pomo, Suisunes, Wappo and Patwin. Northern California (North to South) Mission San Francisco Solano Photo by Damian Bacich/. You will also find the names of their founders, the native peoples who lived at each mission, the agricultural goods produced there and its current status. Profiles are listed in chronological order from the date of their founding. In addition to missions, there were a number of asistencias in Upper California, Indian settlements that were affiliated with a nearby mission, but without the presence of a resident priest.īelow is a list of the 21 Alta California missions Northern California and Southern California, and a brief profile of each one.Franciscan priests often chose to name based on the day the mission site was established and its relationship to the Church calendar, or because of some special significance the saint held in the life of the missionary or those who accompanied him.Each mission was named after a Catholic saint who served as its patron.These missions were meant to continue the chain of missions extending north from the southern tip of Baja California. By 2017, there were 421 missions worldwide, before contractions in and combining of missions dropped the total to under 400.Between 17 Spanish missionaries founded 21 missions up and down the coast of Alta California (today’s state of California). The following year, the Church created 58 new missions to accommodate the surge of new missionaries, bringing the Church total to 405. The Church had 347 missions in 2012, when the minimum age for full-time missionaries was lowered to 18 for elders and 19 for sisters. Those numbers are up from the end of the previous, pandemic-period year of 2020 - 51,819 and 30,527, respectively.Īnd the Church’s total number of missions worldwide has moved back up to 4, after contractions and realignment had resulted in a dip to 399 missions in 2019. | Aaron Thorup, for the Church NewsĪccording to the Church’s end-of-year statistics, the 2021 total of full-time teaching missionaries was 54,539, with an additional 36,639 service missionaries. Also noted are the countries with the most missions in each area. This global map shows the number of the 411 missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in each area as of September 2022. The map is arranged by general global or geographic areas, not by the 23 area divisions used by the Church.
The Church News has a world map showing an area-by-area breakdown of the 411 missions, and the countries in the various areas. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has 411 missions spread across the world, from North and South America to Europe and Africa and on to Asia and Australia/Oceania.