# Spanish missions in Georgia

The Spanish missions in Georgia comprised a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the Guale and various Timucua peoples in what is now southeastern Georgia.
Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established a number of missions throughout Spanish Florida in order to convert the Native Americans to Christianity, to facilitate control of the area, and to prevent its colonization by other countries, in particular, England and France. Spanish Florida originally included much of what is now the Southeastern United States, although Spain never exercised long-term effective control over more than the northern part of what is now the state of Florida from present-day St. Augustine to the area around Tallahassee, southeastern Georgia, and some coastal settlements, such as Pensacola, Florida. A few short-lived missions were established in other locations, including Mission Santa Elena in present-day South Carolina, around the Florida peninsula, and in the interior of Georgia and Alabama.

## Missions

This table includes doctrinas, missions that normally had one or more resident missionaries, but does not include visitas, which never had a resident missionary, and had less substantial church buildings where services were conducted by visiting missionaries.
Spanish missions in the present-day US state of Georgia :
| Mission Name | Location | Province or Region | Documentation of when missions were active is incomplete. Years listed in this column may not represent either the earliest or the latest year in which a mission was in use.}} |
| Espogache | | Guale | 1605–? |
| Guale | $_{31.62534,-81.17348}$ | Guale | 1568–1570 |
| Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato | | Guale | 1587–1597, 1605–? |
| Ospo or Talapo | | Guale | 1595–1606 |
| San Augustín de Urihica | | Northern Utina | 1630-1657 |
| San Buenaventura de Guadalquini (moved to St. Johns River as Santa Cruz de Guadalquini) | $_{31.13393,-81.39363}$ | Guale/Mocama | 1606-1684 |
| San Diego de Satuache | $_{31.89,-81.20083}$ | Guale | 1616–1675 |
| San Felipe de Alabe | | Guale | 1616–1655 |
| San Felipe (on Cumberland Island) | | Mocama | 1675–1678 |
| San Joseph de Sapala or San José de Zapala ( Sapelo Island) | $_{31.51544,-81.24218}$ | Guale | 1616–1684 |
| San Lorenzo de Ibihica | | Ibi | 1612–1630 |
| San Pedro de Atulteca or San Felipe de Athulteca | | Guale | 1616–1695 |
| San Pedro de Mocama (Cumberland Island) | $_{30.75415,-81.47263}$ | Mocama | 1587–1655(?) |
| San Pedro y San Pablo de Puturiba(to) | | Guale | 1597(?)–1604(?) |
| Santa Catalina de Guale (St. Catherines Island, Sapelo Island and Amelia Island, in succession) | $_{31.62534,-81.17348}$ $_{(onSt.CatherinesIsland)}$ | Guale | 1595–1597, 1602–1702 |
| Santa Clara de Tupiqui (Sapelo River) | | Guale | 1595–1597 |
| Santa Cruz de Cachipile | $_{30.66337,-83.20622}$ | Arapaha | 1655–1657 |
| Santa Isabel de Utinahica | | Unknown | 1616 |
| Santa María de los Angeles de Arapaha | | Arapaha | 1630–1657 |
| Santiago de Oconi (near the Okefenokee Swamp) | | Oconi | Early 16th century - 1655 |
| Santo Domingo de Asao or Santo Domingo de Talaje | $_{31.36433,-81.41751}$ $_{(onthemainland)}$ | Guale | 1595(?)–1680s |
| Tupiqui | | Guale | 1569–1570 |