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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.
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 ...
The Presbyterian Church in India was founded in 1841. [ 3 ] by missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Wales (formerly the Calvinistic Methodist Church). [ 7 ] Rev Thomas Jones and his wife arrived in Sohra and from the town, this work spread to Sylhet today known as Bangladesh and Cachar Plains , Assam , Mizoram , Manipur and Tripura .
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 major Christian denomination is the Mizoram Presbyterian Church, which was established by the Welsh missionary David Evan Jones starting in 1894. [112] By the time India gained independence from British Empire, some 80% of Lushei tribe people had converted to Christianity. [113]
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]
In 1902, the Welsh Presbyterian Mission decided to split Mizoram into two mission fields, the northern and southern regions. Since mission was fledging well and the church was growing immensely, they handed the southern field to Baptist Missionary Society of London. The mission was funded under the share of Robert Arthington's will. The ...
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.