Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
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"San Luis Rey" redirects here. For the neighborhood, see San Luis Rey, Oceanside, California. For the river, see San Luis Rey River.
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (Spanish: Misión San Luis Rey de Francia) is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood of Oceanside, California. This Mission lent its name to the Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians.
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Location | 4050 Mission Ave. Oceanside, California 92057 USA |
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Coordinates | 33°13′57″N 117°19′13″W |
Name as founded | La Misión de San Luis, Rey de Francia [1] |
English translation | The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France |
Patron | Louis IX of France[2] |
Nickname(s) | "King of the Missions" [3] |
Founding date | June 13, 1798[4] |
Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín de Lasuén [5] |
Area | 35 acres (14 ha) |
Built | 1815 |
Architectural style(s) | Spanish Colonial |
Founding Order | Eighteenth [2] |
Military district | First (El Presidio Reál de San Diego) [6][7] |
Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) | Kumeyaay, Quechnajuichom Luiseño & Diegueño 'Mission Indians' |
Native place name(s) | Quencha—Quechla [8][9] |
Baptisms | 5,399 [10] |
Marriages | 1,335 [10] |
Burials | 2,718 [10] |
Neophyte population | 2,788 [11][12] |
Secularized | 1834 [2] |
Returned to the Church | 1865 [2] |
Governing body | Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego |
Current use | Parish/Museum/Cemetery/Retreat House |
Official name: San Luis Rey Mission Church | |
Designated | April 15, 1970[13] |
Reference no. | 70000142[13] |
Designated | April 15, 1970[14] |
Reference no. | #239 |
Website | |
http://www.sanluisrey.org/ |
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At its prime, Mission San Luis Rey's structures and services compound covered almost 950,400 acres (384,600 ha), making it the largest of the Californian missions, along with its surrounding agricultural land.[15] Multiple outposts were built in support of Mission San Luis Rey and placed under its supervision, including San Antonio de Pala Asistencia in 1816 and Las Flores Estancia in 1823.