Junípero Serra
（重定向自Miguel Jose Serra）
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![Monument of Junípero Serra (with Juaneño Indian boy) on the Plaza de San Francisco de Asis in Havana, Cuba](/Images/godic/202501/27/Serra_havana4112.jpg")
![Statue of Junipero Serra at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego.](/Images/godic/202501/27/Statue_of_Junipero_Serra4112.jpg")
![March 19, 1770: Serra rejoices at the sight of the supply ship San Antonio on the horizon beyond San Diego Bay. The San Carlos rests at anchor offshore.](/Images/godic/202501/27/Serra_in_San_Diego_May_19_17704113.jpg")
Junípero Serra y Ferrer, O.F.M., (/huːˈnᵻpɛroʊ ˈsɛrə/; Spanish: [xuˈnipeɾo ˈsera], Catalan:Juníper Serra i Ferrer) (November 24, 1713 –August 28, 1784) was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain.