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Christianity arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD; as of 2024, a majority of Africans are Christians. [1] Several African Christians influenced the early development of Christianity and shaped its doctrines, including Tertullian, Perpetua, Felicity, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Cyprian, Athanasius and Augustine of Hippo.
Joseph Booth (1851 in Derby, England – 1932) was an English missionary working in British Central Africa (present-day Malawi) and South Africa.In his 30s, Booth abandoned his career as a businessman and, for the rest of his life, he undertook missionary work for several Christian denominations including Baptist, Seventh Day Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches, and he was appointed a ...
Missionary discourses of difference: Negotiating otherness in the British Empire, 1840–1900 (2012). Dunch, Ryan. "Beyond cultural imperialism: Cultural theory, Christian missions, and global modernity." History and Theory 41.3 (2002): 301–325. online; Latourette, Kenneth Scott, The Great Century: North Africa and Asia 1800 A.D. to 1914 A.D.
Alexander Murdoch Mackay (13 October 1849 – 4 February 1890) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Uganda also known as Mackay of Uganda.After studying math, drafting and other technical subjects at several universities, Mackay, at age twenty-five, decided to dedicate his life to Christian missionary work, and saw this as a great opportunity to put his technical skills to beneficial use.
The Universities' Mission to Central Africa (c.1857 - 1965) was a missionary society established by members of the Anglican Church within the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin. It was firmly in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church, and the first to devolve authority to a bishop in the field rather than to a home ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Rhenish Missionary Society (1 C, 4 P) Roman Catholic missions in Africa (5 C, 2 P) S. Christian missions in South Africa (1 C ...
The Society of African Missions (Latin: Societas Missionum ad Afros; French: Société des Missions Africaines), also known as the SMA Fathers, is a Catholic religious society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men founded by Melchior de Marion Brésillac in 1856. [8]
The Rev. T. B. Freeman, another missionary, took the Christian message beyond Cape Coast to the Ashanti Empire, to Nigeria, and to other parts of the region to become the father of Methodism in West Africa. [6] For the most part, The Methodist Church Ghana follows the same Sunday worship practices as other Methodist Church branches.