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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.
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.
[54] [55] A rival sister Isua Krista Kohhran Mizoram split out on 6 April 1977. The church is spread all over Mizoram and also in parts of Tripura, Bangladesh and Burma. [56] Kohhran Thianghlim (Holy Church) was founded by a veterinary doctor L.B. Sailo in 1984. It is headquartered at Chawlhhmun, Aizawl, with its notable Solomon's Temple. [54] [55]
John Meirion Lloyd (Corris, Merionethshire 4 May 1913 - Prestatyn, 30 September 1998) was a Welsh Presbyterian missionary in Mizoram, India. [1] He was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Wales 1941, and followed in the tradition of his countryman in Mizoram David Evan Jones (missionary). [2]
Zairema (/ z aɪ ˈ r ɛ m ə /; 4 May 1917 – 17 December 2008) was a Presbyterian minister, and a pioneer in theology and literature among the Mizo people of northeast India.He was the first Mizo to obtain the degrees of BSc and BD. [1]
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 .
Lalsawma is an Indian social worker, writer and a Christian missionary and Pastor of the Mizoram Presbyterian Church. [1] His contributions are reported in the reconciliation efforts between the Government of India and the Mizo National Front (MNF) on two occasions.