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John of Montecorvino or Giovanni da Montecorvino[1] in Italian[2] (1247 – 1328) was an Italian Franciscan missionary, traveller and statesman, founder of the earliest Latin Catholic missions in India and China, and archbishop of Peking.[3] He converted many people during his missionary work and established several churches in Yuan dynasty-held Beijing. John of Montecorvino wrote a letter intending to convert the Great Khan to Catholicism.[4] He was a contemporary of Marco Polo.
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