Spanish Missions of Texas

Mission Corpus Christi de la Ysleta

1682

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Is the oldest continuously operated parish in the State of Texas.

Mission San Clemente

1684

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Mission San Juan Capistrano is a former Spanish mission founded in 1776 in colonial Las Californias by Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Franciscan Order.

Mission San Francisco de los Tejas

1690

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Mission San Francisco de la Espada is a Roman Rite Catholic mission established in 1690 by Spain and relocated in 1731 to present-day San Antonio, Texas, in what was then known as northern New Spain.

Mission San Juan Bautista

1699

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Mission San Juan Bautista is a Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. Founded on June 24, 1797 by Fermín Lasuén of the Franciscan order, the mission was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions established in present-day California.

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purísima

1716

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Franciscan Friars established Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña in 1716 as Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de los Hayáis in East Texas

Mission San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo)

1718

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The Alamo Mission in San Antonio, commonly called The Alamo and originally known as the Misión San Antonio de Valero, is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo

1720

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Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo is an historic Catholic mission in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The mission was named in part for the Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo, José de Azlor y Virto de Vera.

Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga

1722

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Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga, also known as Aranama Mission or Mission La Bahia, was a Roman Catholic mission established by Spain in 1722 in the Viceroyalty of New Spain—to convert native Karankawa Indians to Christianity.

Mission San Juan Capistrano

1731

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Mission San Juan Capistrano is a former Spanish mission founded in 1776 in colonial Las Californias by Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Franciscan Order.

Mission Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañón

1749

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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañón was founded in 1749. Drought and disease plagued the San Xavier missions and they were abandoned in 1755 after one of the padres was murdered by a soldier from the nearby presidio.