Giulio Aleni
1582 ~ 1647
Jesuit missionary in China.
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Jean Joseph Marie Amiot
1718 ~ 1793
Jesuit missionary and author at the court of the Chinese emperor.
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Giovanni Aroccia
1566 ~ 1623
Portuguese Jesuit missionary who entered interior China in the late Ming Dynasty.
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Melchior Miguel Carneiro Leitao
1519 ~ 1583
Portuguese Jesuit missionary and bishop of China and Japan.
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Giuseppe Castiglione
1683 ~ 1766
Jesuit missionary and painter at the imperial court of China.
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Seraphin Couvreur
1835 ~ 1919
Jesuit missionary in China, translator of Chinese classics, and compiler of several dictionaries.
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Philippus Maria Grimaldi
1639 ~ 1712
Italian Jesuit missionary who worked in the Qing government during the reign of Emperor Kangxi.
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Godefroid Xavier de Laimleckhoven
1707 ~ 1785
Jesuit missionary who entered the interior of China during the reign of Emperor Qian Lung (Qing Dynasty).
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Li Zhizao
1565 ~ 1630
Only high-ranking Chinese intellectual baptized by Matteo Ricci, and one of the "three pillars" of the early Catholic Church in China.
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Nicolò Longobardo
1559 ~ 1654
Longest-serving Jesuit missionary in China during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
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Joseph Marie Anne de Moyriac de Mailla
1669 ~ 1748
Jesuit missionary, cartographer, and historian in China.
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Francisco Javier Montalban
1895 ~ 1945
Jesuit seminary professor in Shanghai and mission historian.
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Carneiro Leitao Melchior Nunes
1516 ~ 1583
First rector of the Jesuit College at Evora, Portugal, and first bishop delegate of the holy see to exercise his Episcopal ministry in the Far East (from 1568 to 1581), becoming one of the main pioneers of the Catholic Church in Macau.
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Didace de Pantoja
1571 ~ 1618
Spanish Jesuit missionary to China during the late Ming period.
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Thomas Pereira
1645 ~ 1708
Portuguese Jesuit missionary serving the Qing government of Emperor Kangxi.
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Matteo Ricci
1552 ~ 1610
Founder of modern Roman Catholic missions in China and Western sinologist.
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Johann Terrenz
1576 ~ 1630
First Jesuit missionary to help the Ming court revise the Chinese calendar.
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Nicolas Trigault
1577 ~ 1628
Jesuit missionary in China, the first European to see the Nestorian monument of 781.
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Alessandro Valignano
1539 ~ 1606
Organizer of the Jesuit mission in Japan and China, patron of Matteo Ricci.
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Ferdinand Verbiest
1623 ~ 1688
Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and diplomat at the court of China.
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Claude Visdelou
1656 ~ 1737
Jesuit missionary in China and one of the royal mathematicians sent by Louis XIV to the court of China.
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Georges Frederic Leon Wieger
1856 ~ 1933
Physician, sinologue, and Jesuit missionary in China.
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Wu Yushan
1632 ~ 1718
First Chinese priest of the Society of Jesus in Jiangnan, China, and well-known landscape artist in the Qing dynasty.
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Xu Guangqi
1562 ~ 1633
Grand minister of the Ming dynasty and significant member of the Catholic Church who contributed much to the propagation of Christianity during the late Ming period.
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Polycarpe de Souza
1697 ~ 1757
First bishop in Beijing following the banning of Christianity by the Qing emperor Yongzheng.
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