The Archdiocese of Khanbaliq

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In the 14th century, Pope Clement V sent several missionary friars to Khanbaliq (modern-day Beijing) to consecrate fellow missionary Franciscan John of Montecorvino the new archbishop of a new archdiocese that included most of China and India. Who was John of Montecorvino and why did the Latin Church feel an archdiocese was necessary in a place so far from Europe? Find out on this episode of Footnoting History.

​Host: Josh

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Further Reading
Christopher Dawson, The Mongol Mission: Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Sheed and Ward, (1955).
 
Joshua Hevert, Orthodoxy Abroad: John Xxii and Global Christendom, University of North Carolina, (2016), https://doi.org/10.17615/trfv-5p77
 
David Morgan, The Mongols, 2nd ed., Blackwell Publishing, (2007).
 
Igor, Rachewiltz, Papal Enovys to the Great Khans, Stanford University Press, (1971).
 
Jean Richard, La Paputé et Les Missions d’Orient Au Moyen Âge, 2nd ed., École Française de Rome, (1998). 

​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)