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This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.
From 50 missionaries in China in 1860, the number grew to 2,500 (counting spouses and children) in 1900. 1,400 of the missionaries were British, 1,000 were Americans, and 100 were from continental Europe, mostly Scandinavia. [1]
Griffith John Missionary in China and companion of Jonathan Goforth; Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt - first world missionary for Woman's Christian Temperance Union; David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa; Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China; Luella Miner - missionary in China, 1887 ...
1904 – European Christian Mission was founded in Estonia by J.P. Raud. Today it is known as European Christian Mission International. 1905 – Gunnerius Tollefsen is converted at a Salvation Army meeting under the preaching of Samuel Logan Brengle.
Stations of the China Inland Mission in 1902, with hubs in Zhejiang, and between Gansu, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan. By the 1840s China became a major destination for Protestant missionaries from Europe and the United States. [40] Catholic missionaries, who had been banned for a time, returned a few decades later. [41]
North-West Kiang-si Mission Norwegian Lutheran China Mission Association: 1891 Norwegian Lutheran Mission: Norwegian Mission in China: 1889 Norwegian Missionary Society: 1901 Reformed Church in the United States: 1897 Reformed Church in America: 1903 Rhenish Missionary Society: 1847 Peking Mission for Chinese Blind 1881 Pentecostal Missionary ...
Missionaries have preached in Hong Kong, and Macau; 1 Feb 1834 Orson Pratt came to China and held meetings; [7] Missionaries also called 28 August 1852 to China by Brigham Young; [8] 7–8 March 1853, 109 Elders called to various missions among them China. [9] Additionally, LDS missionaries are currently not preaching in a number of countries ...
The Church Missionary Society in China was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; [1] as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world.