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Alopen (Chinese: 阿羅本, fl. AD 635; also "Aleben", "Aluoben", "Olopen," "Olopan," or "Olopuen") is the first recorded Assyrian Christian missionary to have reached China, during the Tang dynasty. He was a missionary from the Church of the East (also known as the "Nestorian Church"), [ 1 ] and probably a Syriac speaker from the Sasanian ...
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.
Lutheran Brethren Mission: 1903 Kiel China Mission 1897 Kiangshi-Hunan Tract Press 1903 Kiao-chau Swedish Baptist Mission Macao Christian College in China Medical Missionary Society of China: 1838 Methodist New Connexion: 1860 Methodist Episcopal Church South USA: 1902 Methodist Episcopal Mission: 1902 Missionary Home and Agency: 1902
The China Inland Mission was the last Protestant missionary society to leave China. In 1900 there were an estimated 100,000 Protestants in China. By 1950 the number had increased to 700,000, but still far less than one percent of the total Chinese population.
Robert Alexander Jaffray (1873 – July 29, 1945) was a missionary to China, Indonesia and several other countries, with The Christian & Missionary Alliance, who served as the founding principal of the Alliance Bible Seminary, in Hong Kong, and principal contributor and editor of the Chinese language Bible Magazine.
Betty Stam grew up in Tsingtao (today called Qingdao), a city on the east coast of China, where her father, Charles Scott, was a missionary. [3] In 1926, Betty returned to the United States to attend college. While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago she met John Stam, who was also a student at Moody. Betty returned to China in 1931.
Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt (1 January 1897 – 6 November 1993) was a British-Swiss Protestant Christian missionary in Guizhou, China. He served with the China Inland Mission (CIM). He was one of two Europeans who were compelled to accompany the soldiers of the Red Army on the Long March .
This led her to the city of Huili in southwestern Sichuan at the end of 1947, where she worked until 1950, when foreign missionaries were driven out of China by the newly established communist government. [22] In 1938, Alfred James Broomhall, an English Baptist missionary, entered China through the China Inland Mission.