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Mizoram Presbyterian Church was established and founded by Welsh missionaries. The Welsh church had formed Foreign Missionary Society in 1840 in Liverpool to provide missionaries to India. Chosen for Mizoram , Jones arrived in Aizawl on 31 August 1897.
Christianity in Mizoram, Mizo language, and Mizo literature J.H. Lorrain and F.W. Savidge James Herbert Lorrain , or Pu Buanga , (6 February 1870 – 1 July 1944) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a Scottish Baptist missionary in northeast India , including Mizoram , Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh .
Calvinistic Methodist Church (now properly the Presbyterian Church of Wales) took over the Lushai Hills as its mission field and sent their first missionary Revd. D. E. Jones, who arrived in Aizawl on 31 August 1897, shortly before the Arthington Mission's brief departure. [26] This marked the introduction of the Presbyterian Church in Mizoram ...
Aizawl Theological College is an ecumenical seminary of the Presbyterian Church in Aizawl, Mizoram, India. It is affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University). [1] The college is owned by the Mizoram Presbyterian Church and administered by the Mizoram Synod through its Theological Education Board. [2]
The church Mizoram Presbyterian Church was established by a Welsh missionary named Rev. D.E. Jones and is one of the constituted body|constituted bodies of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of India, which has its headquarters at Shillong in Meghalaya (India). The administration of the Presbyterian Church is highly centralised.
The arrival of Gospel in Mizoram, "Missionary Day", is observed by the Government of Mizoram as public holiday on 11 January to commemorate the arrival of F.W. Savidge and James Herbert Lorrain in 1894. However, the date of his arrival, 15 March, was adopted as "Missionary Day" by Mizoram Presbyterian Church in its 89th General Assembly in 2012.
The oldest church building on his list belongs to Immaculate Conception Church, which was constructed in 1886. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral’s building was completed a few years later in 1892.
It is managed and governed by the Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod. The hospital was established in 1928 by the Calvinistic Methodist Church (now the Presbyterian Church of Wales) as a nursing institute. [3] It is the second hospital (after Christian Hospital Serkawn) established, and the largest non-governmental hospital in Mizoram. It has a ...